Ananya Prakash (she/her/hers) graduated in Spring 2024 with a BSA in Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also pursued the ‘Elements of Computing’ and ‘Scientific Computation and Data Sciences’ certificates. Through her various leadership and work positions, she has prior experience in coding (American Medical Student Association, Girls Who Code), teaching (Girls Who Code, Austin Partners in Education), and community involvement (Uconnect Esports, BagWi Inc, Women in Gaming, Longhorn Gaming).
Ananya was one of the first members of the Dynamic Medical Image and Computing Lab, joining in April 2022. She worked on computational methods for disease progression and medical image analysis, and was selected to present her work at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine 2023 Annual Meeting. Now, she is a Senior Account Manager at Uconnect Esports.