Lakshmi Kalyani Chinthala

Lakshmi Kalyani Chinthala

Independent Researcher|SmartDaas

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  • SmartDaas
    SmartDaasOpen-source ML pf predicting HIV treatment interruption risk
    May 2026
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    Joined Product HuntMay 21st, 2026

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Why I built SmartDaas for HIV programs

I built SmartDaaS because many HIV programmes only identify treatment interruption after patients have already disengaged from care. I wanted to see whether routine programme data already being collected could be transformed into practical decision support without requiring new infrastructure or workflow changes.

SmartDaaS was built as a solo, bootstrapped project and trained on real-world HIV programme data with external validation across multiple countries.

Happy to answer questions about the methodology, explainability (SHAP), validation approach, or implementation design.

SmartDaas - Open-source ML pf predicting HIV treatment interruption risk

SmartDaaS predicts HIV treatment interruption risk from routine DHIS2 and EMR exports — no new data collection, no workflow changes. Built for PEPFAR implementing partners across sub-Saharan Africa. - Trained on 27,288 real-world HIV patient records - Temporal AUC 0.772 on held-out future patients - SHAP explainability for every risk score - No data stored — session-only processing - Validated across 192,732 records in 6 countries - MIT licensed
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