Shaila Zaman
Senior Scientific Programmer at Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolShaila Zaman is a Senior Scientific Programmer with over eight years of experience blending data science, machine learning, and software engineering, currently leading data-driven research at Baylor College of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Houston with a focus on affective computing and has applied that expertise to probabilistic emotion estimation, multi-modal data curation, and large-scale NLP for record linkage. Her work ranges from building HIPAA-conscious pipelines that integrate deterministic and probabilistic linkage methods to adapting open-source LLMs for extracting biographical and incident information in clinical research. Past roles include a machine learning internship at Facebook where she sped up distributed training and a research fellowship fine-tuning LLMs for finance, underscoring her ability to move models from research to production. Known for clear communication and project leadership, she combines academic rigor with practical engineering to deliver reproducible, impact-driven analytics.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of HoustonBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Bangla, EnglishProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shaila96/Data-Migration-Python-Script
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:35 commits in 1 year 5 months
UH-CPL/Office-Tasks-2019-Methods
Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:65 commits, 32 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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