Shishir Adhikari
Postdoctoral Fellow at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolShishir Adhikari is a postdoctoral researcher and software engineer with nine years of experience building data-driven systems and advancing causal inference and machine learning research. Currently at Mount Sinai, he develops AI and causal methods to translate sleep and cardiovascular data into clinical insights, building on a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Chicago. His background spans production analytics and search systems—designing real-estate price indices with Spark MLlib, time-series IoT pipelines with Spark Streaming and Cassandra, and custom Elasticsearch engines—bringing a rare mix of applied engineering and rigorous causal research. He has hands-on experience validating LLMs and ML agents, bridging experimental evaluation with real-world deployments. Based in Chicago, he combines translational research with practical systems know-how to move causal ML from theory toward impactful healthcare applications.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Tribhuvan University10+2 Science Mathematics, 10+2 Science Mathematics at Nepal Darshan Higher Secondary School
English, Nepali, Hindi
Github Skills (37)
grails-plugin7
niagara7
client-library7
location-services6
google-maps-api5
google-maps5
geocoding5
api5
java5
google4
java-client4
anaconda4
grails3
python-bindings3
haystack3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Aidan275/spark-iot-ts
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:105 commits in 4 months
shishir-lab/shishir-lab.github.io
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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