Brittany Wenger (born 1994) is a student who was the first-place winner of the
Google Science Fair
The Google Science Fair was a worldwide (excluding Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Myanmar/Burma, Syria, Zimbabwe and any other U.S. sanctioned country) online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, Virgin Galactic, National Geographic ...
in 2012. Wenger currently studies at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
.
For her entry into the science fair, Wenger trained a statistical model to predict signs of
breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a re ...
given nine features from the breast tissue samples as an input representation. She used
neural networks
A neural network is a network or circuit of biological neurons, or, in a modern sense, an artificial neural network, composed of artificial neurons or nodes. Thus, a neural network is either a biological neural network, made up of biological ...
to train the develop the statistical model,
["Intel Science Talent Search 2013 Finalist Brittany Wenger Out-of-Door Academy Florida."]
Society for Science and the Public. which is currently 99.1 percent sensitive to malignancy. As the first-place winner, she received a $50,000 scholarship.
Wenger spoke about her software at the
TEDx
TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". TED was founded by Richard Sau ...
Atlanta conference in 2012, and TEDx CERN conference in 2013.
Brittany Wenger at TEDx CERN
YouTube In 2013, representing Out-of-Door Academy, she was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search and was awarded 8th place.
References
External links
The Out-of-Door AcademyBrittany Wenger's app
''Thunderstrokes''.
Angier B. Duke Scholars
Living people
Duke University people
1994 births
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