Show HN: I built 20,795 grad-advisor profiles from OpenAlex public data

Category: other

Tags: academic-search, openalex, graduate-advising, research-discovery

Score: 4.0/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 3, Documentation: 3, Utility: 5)

LabCompass is a web tool that helps prospective graduate students find academic advisors (PIs) by aggregating public scholarly data from OpenAlex into searchable profiles, currently covering four universities. It offers a match-by-interests feature for discovering aligned research groups. The project addresses a real pain point in grad school applications but is still limited in scope and technical depth.

Target audience: prospective graduate students, academic advisors, university departments

Repository: https://labcompass.app

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