Brittany Wenger

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Brittany Wenger (born 1994) is a student who was the first-place winner of the Google Science Fair in 2012. Wenger currently studies at Duke University. [1]

For her entry into the science fair, Wenger trained a statistical model to predict signs of breast cancer given nine features from the breast tissue samples as an input representation. [2] [3] She used neural networks to train the develop the statistical model, [4] which is currently 99.1 percent sensitive to malignancy. [5] As the first-place winner, she received a $50,000 scholarship. [6]

Wenger spoke about her software at the TEDx Atlanta conference in 2012, [7] and TEDx CERN conference in 2013. [8] In 2013, representing Out-of-Door Academy, she was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search and was awarded 8th place. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Zhang, Jenna (27 January 2014). "TIME's Thirty under Thirty Brittany Wenger talks research, Duke experience". Duke Chronicle. Duke Student Publishing. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Roach, John. "17-year-old girl trained a statistical model to detect breast cancer". NBC News. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "17-year-old programs artificial 'brain' to diagnose breast cancer" .Fox News. 25 July 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Intel Science Talent Search 2013 Finalist Brittany Wenger Out-of-Door Academy Florida." Archived 2013-07-30 at the Wayback Machine Society for Science and the Public.
  5. ↑ Kelley, Michael. "This 17-Year-Old Built An Artificial 'Brain' That Can Accurately Diagnose Breast Cancer". Business Insider, 24 August 2012.
  6. ↑ Kuchment, Anna (2012). "Google recognizes teens for tackling hearing loss breast cancer and water quality". Scientific American. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  7. ↑ "Brittany Wenger" Archived 2014-03-07 at the Wayback Machine . TEDx Atlanta, March 2012.
  8. ↑ Brittany Wenger at TEDx CERN, YouTube


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