Samyak
Shah

Senior ML Engineer & Data Scientist

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Experience

Co-Founder, Principal ML Engineer

Aug 2017 – Present
EpiWatchDallas, TX

Co-Founder, Applied ML Engineer

08/2022 – 06/2024
OrbaDallas, TX

Senior Software Engineer

06/2019 – 06/2024
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD

Systems Engineer

Jun 2016 – Sep 2016
Philips HealthcareInternship

Research & Development

Aug 2015 – Sep 2015
InCube LabsInternship

Research & Development

Jul 2014 – Sep 2014
InCube LabsInternship

Projects

Patents

  • Physiological detection and alerting

    Inventor (royalty-bearing), patent published — novel method of seizure detection and alerting using biosensor data.

  • Neurally Augmented Virtual Interface

    Co-inventor, patent pending — novel control interface for paralyzed individuals and patients with ALS.

Talks

  • Speaker at SfN 2023

    Spoke to 200+ attendees at Society for Neuroscience on using LLMs for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) applications.

  • Founder University 2023

    Spoke to 150 Founder University participants about Orba and automating inbound marketing with LLMs.

Papers

  • Online speech synthesis using a chronically implanted brain–computer interface in an individual with ALS

    M Angrick, S Luo, Q Rabbani, DN Candrea, S Shah, GW Milsap, et al.Scientific Reports, 2024

  • Stable decoding from a speech BCI enables control for an individual with ALS without recalibration for 3 months

    S Luo, M Angrick, C Coogan, DN Candrea, K Wyse‐Sookoo, S Shah, et al.Advanced Science, 2023

  • A click-based electrocorticographic brain-computer interface enables long-term high-performance switch scan spelling

    DN Candrea, S Shah, S Luo, M Angrick, Q Rabbani, C Coogan, et al.Communications Medicine, 2024

  • Prospective multicenter study of continuous tonic-clonic seizure monitoring on Apple Watch in epilepsy monitoring units and ambulatory environments

    S Shah, EG Gutierrez, JL Hopp, J Wheless, A Gil-Nagel, GL Krauss, et al.Epilepsy & Behavior, 2024

  • Seizure triggers identified postictally using a smart watch reporting system

    A Ge, EG Gutierrez, SW Lee, S Shah, Y Carmenate, M Collard, NE Crone, et al.Epilepsy & Behavior, 2022

  • Iterative alignment discovery of speech-associated neural activity

    Q Rabbani, S Shah, G Milsap, M Fifer, H Hermansky, N CroneJournal of Neural Engineering, 2024

  • On-chip magnetoresistive sensors for detection and localization of paramagnetic particles

    S Shah, H Heidari2017 IEEE SENSORS, 2017

  • Development of a real-time smartwatch algorithm for the detection of generalized tonic-clonic seizures

    S ShahJohns Hopkins University (Thesis), 2019

Education

MS CS & Data Science

Johns Hopkins University

2022 – PresentBaltimore, MD

MS Biomedical Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

2017 – 2019Baltimore, MD

BS Biomedical Engineering

University of Glasgow

2013 – 2017Glasgow, UK

Skills

Modeling & Data Science

Pythonscikit-learnPyTorchTensorFlowXGBoostRandom ForestIsolation ForestSVMPCAClusteringHMMsMCMCBayesian ModelingAdaptive Deep LearningStatistical AnalysisExperimental Design

ML Systems & MLOps

MLflowDVCDAGsHubSparkClickHouseModel MonitoringDrift DetectionExperiment TrackingReal-Time InferenceMLOps Pipelines

LLM / Applied AI

RAGPrompt OrchestrationFine-TuningLangChainNeMo GuardrailsContext-Aware RetrievalCitation-Grounded GenerationWhisper

Backend / Cloud

AWSAWS CDKFastAPIFlaskSpring BootPostgreSQLMongoDBREST APIsCI/CDBitbucket ActionsFastlane

Frontend / Product

TypeScriptNext.jsReactSwiftXcodeObjective-C