Khem S

Albany, New York Metropolitan Area United States

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Khem S is a multidisciplinary researcher and educator with 13 years of experience at the intersection of higher education, data science, and social justice, currently co-chairing NCME’s Graduate Student Issues Committee and working at UAlbany’s AI & Society Research Center. He pairs a PhD in Educational Leadership with advanced training in computational and applied mathematics (including a certificate in Topological Data Analysis), bringing rigorous statistical and ML skills to institutional assessment and policy work. Technically fluent across Python, R, Java/C++, Matlab, Ruby, and TypeScript, he contributes to open-source projects—most notably enhancing oauth-ruby with REST client proxying and integration tests—showing comfort with both full-stack development and library maintenance. His career spans roles from senior research aide and data analyst to founding an international student placement company, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on analytics, pedagogy, and global program administration. Known for translating complex quantitative methods into actionable institutional strategies, he advocates for equitable educational practices informed by data. Colleagues describe him as a curious systems thinker who moves fluidly between classroom instruction, research, and production code.

13 years of coding experience

Graduate Certificate in Topological Data Analysis, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Graduate Certificate in Topological Data Analysis, Computational and Applied Mathematics at University at Albany

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD , Educational Policy and Leadership, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD , Educational Policy and Leadership at University at Albany School of Education

Master of Laws - LLM, Master of Laws - LLM at Nepal Law Campus, Central Department of Law

Master's degree, International Relations and Affairs, Master's degree, International Relations and Affairs at Syracuse University - Maxwell School

Summer Program 2020, Educating Global Citizens, Summer Program 2020, Educating Global Citizens at Harvard Graduate School of Education

English, Nepali, Hindi, Japanese, Sanskrit

Github Skills (7)

minitest10

rest-client10

oauth10

ruby10

integration-testing9

nethttp6

http6

Programming languages (5)

C#JavaGoRubyPython

Github contributions (5)

oauth-xx/oauth-ruby

Sep 2013 - Jan 2021

OAuth for Ruby

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:3 releases, 23 commits, 9 PRs in 7 years 5 months

Contributions summary:Khem primarily focused on enhancing the `oauth-ruby` library by adding support for REST client proxying using `rest-client`, implementing and testing functionality. They also contributed to integration tests, including updates to existing tests and adding new test cases. Furthermore, the user was involved in merging pull requests and updating dependencies, suggesting a role in maintaining the project's overall quality and integration of community contributions.

railsomniauthrubyoauth2oauth

AnyPresence/push_notification_extension

Aug 2012 - Feb 2014

Contributions:66 commits in 1 year 5 months

push-notificationnotificationpushnotifications

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