Aiya Alchaar

Easton, Massachusetts, United States

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Aiya Alchaar is an AI-focused research engineer with 11 years of experience applying deep learning to biomedical and bioinformatics problems, currently advancing medical image segmentation at Boston University. She combines hands-on expertise in Python and PyTorch with practical model engineering—implementing Swin-UNet, DeepLabV3+, ResUNet, and self-/semi-supervised techniques—to translate research prototypes into clinically relevant tools. Her work spans multiclass dental imaging, gene function prediction across organisms, and robotics-integrated ML, reflecting a rare mix of domain breadth from healthcare to embedded systems. An open-source contributor, she has extended the vim-quickrun plugin to support niche languages, signaling a knack for pragmatic tooling and developer ergonomics. Based in Easton, MA, Aiya is finishing a master’s in Applied Data Analytics and actively collaborates with clinicians to prioritize real-world impact over benchmark gains.

12 years of coding experience

1 year of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at King Faisal University

Master's degree, Applied Data Analytics, Master's degree, Applied Data Analytics at Boston University

Arabic, English

Github Skills (5)

vim10

vim-plugin10

scala9

idris9

kotlin9

Programming languages (29)

C#CVim SnippetElmGoHTMLGroovyTypeScript

Github contributions (5)

thinca/vim-quickrun

Sep 2016 - Feb 2018

Run commands quickly.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 4 months

Contributions summary:Aiya primarily focused on configuring and extending the `vim-quickrun` plugin to support additional programming languages. This involved adding new configurations for languages like Scala, Kotlin, Eta, and Idris. They modified existing configurations, addressing issues and improving integration with the plugin's execution flow. The user also updated file paths and execution commands to align with language-specific requirements.

run-commandvimdebugvim-plugin

aiya000/haskell_de_groupstructure

Jan 2016 - Mar 2016

Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months

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