Monthly Archives: July 2020

The SWITCH PATHS-UP program hit the mark in terms of research, programming opportunities, assignments, tutorials, and guest speakers. Although the program was entirely virtual, it didn’t disappoint in terms of “rigor.”The basis for the SWITCH PATHS-UP program centered around Healthcare … Continue reading →

We wrapped up our last week with 2 amazing presenters! First was Jasper Tan and his focus was on Privacy in the Age of Data. He told us how in order to train machine learning networks and gather all this data … Continue reading →

A Pause, A Break While I may not be able to treat COVID, I’m happy that my family remains in good spirits. I face-timed my little sisters today and they seemed to be doing well. I loved hearing their voices … Continue reading →

Red Eye This week started with a lot of excitement as we were able to finally get our eye-tracking program working with some assistance (Leon, Daniel & Chris- shout out!). I’ve attached my first try at this- it was remarkably … Continue reading →

     Week four has been a blast! I can’t believe so much time has passed. We had several guest speakers who were Rice Graduate Students. They visited our zoom meeting to chat about their work. Mary Jin and Brady Hunt … Continue reading →

We kicked off this week with a presentation from our fearless leader, Mary Jin who discussed her work in developing and testing the RAPID (Real-time Artificial-Intelligence-enabled Pathology for Intraoperative margin Detection) microscope for cellular imagery. The dilemma discussed was easy … Continue reading →

It feels like we just started this program and we’re already wrapping up. This week was the most challenging for me. Our reading for this week had less of a learning curve and I was able to understand most of … Continue reading →

Personal Plights This week has been a struggle. I had mentioned in a prior post how crazy it felt. Well, it got crazier. Now, my whole family has had to quarantine and I’m walking around looking like a plague doctor … Continue reading →

… seriously. I could probably write 250 words on how unjust it is to do a single blog post covering the topics we hit on this week. It took me a day just to process and be able to sit … Continue reading →

This week I got to research Machine Learning! I chose to follow Google’s Machine Learning Crash Course for a couple of reasons: 1) it uses Tensor Flow API without requiring me to download Tensor Flow in my machine, 2) it … Continue reading →