Rohan Baishya

Rohan D. Baishya is a Boettcher Scholar with experience in Technology and Business Development roles at companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 corporations. Academically, Rohan has an interest in research, including a comprehensive investigation on the roles of competence versus charisma in leadership, as well as a study centered around reducing bias in racial vision classification systems through experimenting with generality and specificity of taxonomies.
As a Scrum Master and Technology Development Intern at Optum (a UnitedHealth Group company), Rohan had his company-wide hackathon-winning product patented: an avatar-based wearable application to help people with chronic conditions better manage their health. He also completed an honorary business development internship living and working with the CEO of Credence Management Solutions LLC after winning their Elevator Pitch competition in Las Vegas the previous summer.
Being colorblind, Rohan struggled matching clothes for years. He wanted a personal stylist more than anything growing up, and today, he's developing one! PAIR is an artificially intelligent personal stylist coming soon to the App Store and Google Play Store; for more information on the PAIR app, and to get early access to their beta free of cost, feel free to visit pairstylist.com. PAIR was a New Venture Challenge semifinalist venture and has been extended an offer to join Catalyze CU, a Boulder-based accelerator, contingent on the program not being cancelled in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, Rohan continues to use his plethora of software and business experience to bring you an unprecedented virtual style experience, while pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science as an Engineering Honors student, and minors in Business, Engineering Leadership, and Engineering Management & Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is an active member of the Boulder and CU entrepreneurial community through his work as a member of the Innovation Action Team at CU, and is on a mission to democratize fashion through AI and Machine Learning through his company PAIR Virtual Stylist LLC.