A Swedish national, Alice is studying Computer Science and Public Health at Stanford University.
A Swedish national, Alice Heiman arrived at Stanford University with the specific goal to “break into the heart of AI development.” Having just completed her first year studying Computer Science and Human Biology, she is doing just that.
As a former member of the Swedish National Team of Young Scientists, Alice has explained the uses of Artificial Intelligence on Swedish National TV, at the UNICEF innovation center, and in various podcasts. She has also shared her journey in and vision for AI at Women in Tech Sweden, local high schools, and the Nobel Prize Week Dialogue.
During her first year at Stanford, Alice studied, among many things, Machine Learning for Neuroimaging which combined the fields of neuroscience and AI. Here she used Scikit-Learn and PyTorch to apply and build machine-learning models for brain analysis. She went on to build an encoder-decoder model to generate artificial brain images.
At the conclusion of her first quarter, Alice was invited to join the Stanford Computational Neuroscience Lab. Here, along with her colleagues, she develops graph neural networks that can detect Parkinson’s disease in MRI brain scans while putting particular emphasis on model fairness and generalizability. Additionally, she has the honor of participating in the Stanford/Harvard Medical AI Bootcamp starting this fall. As part of the program, Alice will join Professor Pranav Rajpurkar’s lab at Harvard Medical School in their quest to build “Generalist Medical AI Systems.” With “people and planet” as her “North Star,” Alice will deep dive into AI and healthcare this year and then AI and sustainability the next year.
Coding since the age of fifteen within the non-profit organization Hello World! Alice has her sights set on “becoming a leader in AI+Healthcare and using technology to transform patient care.” Along the journey, she hopes to collaborate across disciplines and emphasize science communication so that “more people have a say in how technology should integrate into society.”
Said Alice, “I am so grateful for organizations like Endeavour supporting the next wave of young women in technology. I want to use my Computer Science degree to create a world where people, technology, and the planet can coexist in a positive relationship. Thank you for motivating me to be my best on this incredible journey ahead of us.”
Congratulations Alice! We look forward to your achievements and the achievements of all EWIT scholarship awardees!
