If, like me, you’re one of those people who worries that you haven’t accomplished much in your life, you probably shouldn’t read this profile of Kavya Kopparapu[1], a teenager who has probably done more in her time at high school than I’ve done since I graduated. Most recently, she created a cheap, portable diagnosis system for a common eye affliction her grandfather suffers from, but which often goes undetected and leads to blindness.
A 3D-printed mount and lens lets retinal scans be taken with an iPhone, and a machine learning system using readily available services and trained on thousands of such images does the diagnosis. She presented her work last month at O’Reilly’s AI conference[2].
You should read IEEE Spectrum’s article[3] and her blog[4] — again, though, only if you feel like staring into the distance and contemplating your own inadequacy. I look forward to hearing about Kopparapu’s next project....
Featured Image: Kavya KopparapuReferences
- ^ this profile of Kavya Kopparapu (spectrum.ieee.org)
- ^ last month at O’Reilly’s AI conference (conferences.oreilly.com)
- ^ read IEEE Spectrum’s article (spectrum.ieee.org)
- ^ her blog (compscikavya.wordpress.com)