Shayan Chowdhury
Research Trainee at Reach4Help
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShayan Chowdhury is a researcher and humanitarian technologist with nine years of experience building ML-driven health and public‑policy tools and leading a global disaster‑response nonprofit. As Founder & Executive Director of Reach4Help he coordinated open‑source logistics platforms and a 10K+ NGO map that mobilized aid across 38+ countries and raised six‑figure support for crises from COVID to Ukraine. At Columbia and Harvard Medical School he develops ML/LLM methods and synthetic-data techniques for medical AI, including work submitted to NeurIPS ML4Health, while prior roles span national COVID policy analysis for Bangladesh and computational biology at the New York Genome Center. He combines hands‑on software and signal‑processing expertise with field experience in refugee and disaster settings, uniquely bridging research, productization, and on-the-ground humanitarian impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Columbia UniversityHigh School Diploma High School, High School Diploma High School at Stuyvesant High School
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
react-native10
react10
ieee6
trackpad2
monorepo1
macos1
typescript1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shayantist/LLM-FactChecker
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
End-to-end pipeline for LLMs to fact-check complex statements, with evaluations and ablation studies across GPT-4, Calude Sonnet 3.5, LLaMa 3, etc.
Contributions:6 PRs, 75 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
claude-aidspy-aifact-checkinggpt-4large-language-models
schowdhury8/reach4help
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Main Monorepo for Reach4Help
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 15 branches in 3 months
reactmonorepotypescript
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