Saumik Narayanan
PhD Candidate
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaumik Narayanan is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis with 11 years of experience designing and researching human-AI interaction. His background blends rigorous academic research—co-authoring a CSCW paper from work at GroupLens—and practical industry impact from internships and roles at Microsoft, Amazon, and SIFT. He has shipped automation and data-processing solutions that reduced manual work and improved extraction efficiency, and has applied sensor and civic data methods to real-world urban planning problems. Saumik’s research trajectory pairs applied systems experience with user-centered evaluation, reflecting a rare comfort shifting between production engineering and empirical HCI studies. Based in Missouri, he brings NSF- and UROP-funded research experience and a track record of turning large, messy datasets into publishable insights. Notably, his internship at Amazon automated ELB update workflows, turning days of manual toil into a few hours of repeatable cloud operations.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of MinnesotaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisEagan High School
Github Skills (44)
typescript10
scala10
chess10
nodejs10
functional-programming10
lichess10
mongodb10
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
chessboard8
data-science7
documentdb7
json7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
saumikn/airlinemaps
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 4 pushes in 5 months
saumikn/gymnasium-test
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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