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Portfolio / v4 · Rev 26.04 Dartmouth · Hanover NH

Roya
Parsa.

Computational scientist building machine learning for medicine — currently at Dartmouth's Hassanpour Lab, where I work on medical imaging, diagnostic systems, and the practical realities of deploying AI in medicine.
StatusOpen to 2026 roles · research, bio info & swe
StudyingMS Computer Science · Dartmouth
PriorBS CS + Stats · Adelphi · Honors
FocusML · medical imaging · ethics
DrinksMatcha, mostly ceremonial
§ 01  ·  Profile

Translating medical imaging into code.

I'm a graduate researcher at Dartmouth in the Hassanpour Lab, where we build machine learning tools for digital pathology and medical imaging. Most of my time is spent in PyTorch, figuring out how to build diagnostic models that are actually useful—and ethical—in a real clinical setting.

Before Dartmouth, I got my CS degree with a Statistics minor at Adelphi. My senior thesis with the New York Proton Center focused on improving proton stopping power estimation for pediatric cancer therapy using dual-energy CT. That project really solidified my interest in the gap between raw data and actual patient care.

I value clean data pipelines, readable code, and models that handle uncertainty responsibly. When I'm not running experiments, you can usually find me hunting for good matcha, reading Dostoevsky, or heading out to the stables.

§ 02  ·  Research & Work

Where I've wandered.

2025 — Now

Graduate Researcher, Hassanpour Lab

Dartmouth College · Geisel School of Medicine
Developing ML methods at the intersection of medical imaging and computational pathology — with the Center for Precision Health & AI. Focused on multi-modal models that are interpretable by the people actually reading charts.
2026 — Now

Teaching Assistant, Computer Science

Dartmouth College · Department of Computer Science
Guiding students through coursework and office hours. Helping them debug Graphical ML.
2024 — 2025

Student Researcher, Proton Therapy

New York Proton Center
Improved accuracy of proton stopping power estimation using dual-energy CT models for pediatric cancer treatment planning. Advised by Dr. Sixia Chen; awarded the Honors College Summer Research Fellowship to pursue the work full-time.
2023 — 2024

Teaching Assistant · CS/Stats

Adelphi University
Led labs and office hours for too many courses across CS and Stats.
2022 — 2024

Undergraduate Researcher · CT & Imaging

Adelphi CS · with Dr. Sixia Chen
First tasted ML-for-medicine as an undergrad doing my senior thesis — building preprocessing and evaluation pipelines for CT data, which is where the appetite for this whole field came from.
§ 03  ·  Selected Specimens

Things that kept my GPU busy.

№ 001 / LIVE
Medical Imaging · Research

NYPC — DCT Analysis

Frontend and analysis layer for a dual-energy CT pipeline built with the New York Proton Center. The tool lets medical physicists inspect reconstructions, compare stopping-power estimates, and feed the results back into treatment planning — without leaving the browser.

React · Python · CT reconstruction repository →
№ 002
AI Agent · CLI

simpleCoder

A ReAct-style AI coding assistant that lives in the terminal. Built with semantic RAG for codebase navigation, automated task planning, and strict file-permission guardrails—because AI tools should write code, not quietly overwrite your directories. Basically, a pocket-sized software engineer.

№ 003
Medical AI · Fairness

Fairness in Skin Models

An audit of skin lesion classifiers to determine if they learn genuine pathology or merely exploit dataset artifacts like clinical markings and demographic features. By systematically removing confounders and applying GradCAM, this project exposes what models are actually looking at—ensuring they diagnose the condition, not the photo.

PyTorch · GradCAM in progress...
Currently ·  LIVE

Reading

Notes from the Underground

Working on

A multi-modal imaging paper

Listening

T-Swift, endlessly

Matcha count · ytd

limt → ∞ Matcha(t) = ∞
§ 04  ·  Contact

Collaborations, questions, and book recs.

Let's build
something honest.