Sami Baral
Software Engineer at https://github.com/leapfrogtechnology
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSami Baral is a software engineer and recent PhD in Computer Science based in Worcester, MA, with a decade of experience combining NLP, computer vision, and educational technology to build AI-driven feedback systems for math learning. His research and development work at ASSISTments and WPI focused on organizing student-generated open-ended responses and applying multimodal LLMs and image processing to automatically analyze hand-drawn math work. He brings production engineering experience from Leapfrog Technology and a history of teaching and research assistance that bridges classroom needs and scalable ML solutions. Sami’s specialty is turning noisy, multimodal educational data into actionable feedback pipelines—an unusual blend of applied research and practical software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Kathmandu University (KU)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English, Nepali
Github Skills (14)
frequency-domain8
spectrum7
smacss7
android-app6
react5
audio5
javascript4
boilerplate4
sass4
webpack4
android4
starter-kit3
reaction1
commerce1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
imaslarab/TypeRacer
Sep 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 3 months
imaslarab/AJAX--todolist
Sep 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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