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Ananya Prakash (she/her/hers) is currently a Neuroscience undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), where she is also pursuing 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 joined the Dynamic Medical Image and Computing Lab in April 2022. Since joining Dr. Castillo’s team, she has 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.