Applying Machine Learning to Health Care: Improving access for all [WIE From Around the World]

Growing up in India, Dr. Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer listened to her mother talk about her work as a physics professor who taught electronics, and it piqued her interest in engineering. She calls this a position of both privilege and good fortune, in that having a female role model so highly educated was not the norm. While at the time, the concept of education in India was seen as a ticket to a good life for anyone, Kalpathy-Cramer was in many ways a first-generation woman in her family to not have to fight for the opportunity.