Ananya Karthik is a junior at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, CA, and a 2016 SAILORS alumna. As the co-founder of creAIte, she and her teammates organized the first AI+Art workshop for girls. Ananya was a 2017 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Affiliate Award Recipient, and she enjoys mentoring middle-school girls through the Girls Who Code program. She has participated in scientific research since middle school; recently, she worked on developing Python code for applications in astronomy. When not doing something STEM-related, Ananya enjoys creating art, writing, rock climbing, and dancing.
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Intersection of Tech and Healthcare at Techonomy 2017
Nathan, a man living with paralysis, had the opportunity to shake hands with President Obama; using a robotic arm, Nathan could actually feel the handshake. As Justin Sanchez of DARPA explained on November 5 at Techonomy 2017, this marvelous feat was enabled by brain-machine interfaces, a manifestation of the fascinating connection between technology and neuroscience. […]
