Roya Parsa
Machine learning for precision health

Roya
Parsa.

I build machine learning for medical imaging and computational biology, and I care about making the models fair, robust, and useful where it counts.

Open to research and industry roles in bioinformatics and ML.

About

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I'm a computer science master's student at Dartmouth, working in Dr. Saeed Hassanpour's lab on machine learning for digital pathology.

My path into this field began in precision oncology. As an undergraduate at Adelphi I built deep learning tools for proton therapy at the New York Proton Center, where I saw how much careful modeling matters when the output guides a patient's treatment.

What I work on

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Computational pathology

Fine-tuning foundation models on whole-slide images to read disease straight from tissue morphology.

Medical imaging

Deep learning pipelines for CT and ultrasound that support real treatment planning and screening.

Fairness & robustness

Auditing whether medical models learn true pathology or dataset shortcuts across skin tones and sites.

Experience

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2026

AI Research Fellow, The Ohio State University

Imageomics Institute

A fully funded, year-long fellowship for bioinformatics and imageomics research, including on-site field work in Hawaii that applies machine learning to environmental questions.

2025

Graduate Research Assistant, Dartmouth College

Hassanpour Lab, Geisel School of Medicine

Fine-tune the GigaPath foundation model on whole-slide histopathology to classify autoimmune and cholestatic liver disease, and co-lead a YOLOv8 ultrasound system for cervical cancer screening in low-resource settings.

2024

Student Researcher, New York Proton Center

Computational Science, PI: Dr. Dong Han

Built CT analysis tools that generate stopping-power maps under 1% error to support proton treatment planning, and benchmarked dual-energy against single-energy models.

2023

Software Engineer Intern, North Atlantic Industries

Bohemia, NY

Shipped a GPT-powered document search system that cut support tickets by 50%, and built Python ETL pipelines and Dockerized cross-compilation builds hosted on AWS.

Contact 04

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