Dang, I Did A Lot in 2024: My Year of Growth and Giving Back

Awards

Georgia Tech 40 Under 40, Class of 2024 includes inventors with dozens of patents, professors, neurosurgeons, lawyers for state governors, and … me. Super proud to be part of an extraordinary group of GT alumni who intentionally live Georgia Tech’s motto out loud – progress and service.

Society of Women Engineers Engaged Advocated Award – super thrilled to be one of this year’s recipients. Being honored at the largest conference for women engineers was a dream.

Biomedical Engineering

I’ve been leading a collaborative team across Intel and Samsung Medison to develop Samsung Medison’s AI ultrasound, powered by Intel® Core Ultra processors. Lots of things excite me about this project. Top of the list is the advancements in prenatal care. We’re speeding up the time taken to complete fetal heart assessments.

·  Demo at Intel Vision here

·  Intel AI Everywhere (57:09-58:20) here

·  Former Intel CEO’s Computex keynote here

AI & Women’s Health

I’m really enjoying this era in my career – growing my expertise in edge AI in healthcare.

“Leveraging Edge AI in Video Analytics…” webinar

“Solve Healthcare Business Challenges with Intel-powered AI PCs” read paper

Women’s health is one of my passion areas so I jumped at the opportunity to join the Women's Health Technologies working group at Consumer Technology Association. We are eagerly creating a robust and inclusive standard for women's health.

Invention Education

In collaboration with The Leaders Readers Network (a literary nonprofit), I traveled to Dominica and donated over 2500 picture books to 5 primary schools on the island. Watch

‘Abby Invents Unbreakable Crayons’ storytime hit 1.2M views on YouTube (wowsers!)

Rebranded my business to SeeSoar Kids and launched new stickers & book bundles!

Our Inventiveness Working Group created a survey to gather insights on how informal and formal educational environments can better foster inventiveness. Are you an educator in the US? Take our survey here.

InventEd Convening was held in March 2024 in Alexandria. For an entire year prior, I got to serve on the planning committee. The theme was “Turning Passion into Action”. Over three days of discussions and collaborative work, we explored key topics in K-12 invention education.

Speaking

Keynote, Sandia National Labs – “Real Talk: How to Unleash Your Inner Inventor”

Panelist, Elementary STEM Club – STEM Teacher Summit Author Panel

Panelist, KID Museum – Career Exploration Day for Teens

Panelist, Dedicated Computing Webinar - “Leveraging Edge AI in Video Analytics and Streaming for Medical Applications”

Where is my statue?

Vital Voices, Washington DC (May 2024 – present)

KID Museum, Bethesda MD (March 2024, Women’s History Month)

If you’re still reading, I can’t believe you stuck around. I don’t usually write blogs as long as this. And, I don’t usually pause long enough to reflect on what I accomplished in a year. Guess there’s a first time for everything ^_^.

Thanks for reading! Can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store!