Hey, Charlie: Lindemer Tackling Big, Hard Problems

Dr. Emily Lindemer credits her failures for putting her on the path she's on-from a bachelor's degree in computational neuroscience and computer science to a Ph.D. degree from a joint Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) program and then a dual career as a scientist in imaging analytics at IBM Watson Health and an entrepreneur and founder of Hey ,Charlie, an app to aid in addiction recovery. In fact, she values her failures so much that, when defending her Ph.D. dissertation, she included a curriculum vitae of the failures and rejections she'd experienced. "It was important to me that people understand that this body of work that encompassed the previous four years of my life was a result of a million things that didn't work out along the way," she explains.