About Kavya
Research
SOCIAL IMPACT
Public Speaking
Student
Time’s 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018
Teen Choice Take Note Award 2019
Glamour’s College Women of the Year 2019
seventeen voices of the year 2020
2017 webmd health hero: innovator
Notable Projects
Health and technology
Gliovision: A precision medicine platform that uses deep learning to determine the molecular and genetic signature of a brain tumor in a fraction of the time/cost of traditional methods.
Eyeagnosis: Uses machine learning techniques and a 3D-printed lens attachment for the automatic screening of diabetic retinopathy using a smartphone.
Awards and Honors
2018 Davidson Institute for Talent Development Laureate $50,000 scholarship
2018 Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist $25,000 scholarship
2017 WebMD Health Hero $25,000 grant for my nonprofit
2019 Harvard College Innovation Challenge Founder Excellence Prize
Mentioned in Dr. Eric Topol’s 2019 book titled: Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
GIRLSCOMPUTINGLEAGUE.ORG
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2015 working to bring modern computer science education to students in the socioeconomic & racial minority to improve the balance of diversity.
GirlsComputingLeague has partnered with the White House CSforALL Initiative, Amazon, Google, Apple, and more. Since its inception, GCL has raised over $150,000 for computer science programs and impacted over 5,000 students. GCL now has a national team of over 50 students, with representation in over 10 states across the United States.
Press
IEEE Spectrum: Teenage Whiz Kid Invents an AI System to Diagnose her Grandfather’s Eye Disease
NVIDIA: Braniac vs Brain Cancer: Teen Tackles Deadly Disease
ABC 7: INSPIRE: A better world, one algorithm at a time
WebMD: 2017 Health Hero, Inventor Kavya Kopparapu
Teen Vogue: Meet 7 Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalists
NBC: Local Teen Awarded Health Hero Award
Davidson Institute for Talent Development: Kavya Kopparapu, $50,000 Scholarship Winner
Bust Magazine: Biotech Queen Kavya Kopparapu Is About To Become Your New Hero
Glamour Magazine: How to Get more Women in STEM, According to Trailblazers in the Field
Seventeen Magazine: Kavya Kopparapu is Helping Make Technology Education Available for Students Worldwide
Seventeen Voices of the Year: Kavya Kopparapu is Helping Make Technology Education Available for Students Worldwide
Tech Crunch: High schooler makes 3D-printed, machine learning-powered eye diagnosis system
Forbes: Tory Burch Foundation Destigmatizes Ambition By Making Successful Women Visible Role Models
ABC WGNO: Teen Choice Awards 2019: The Winner’s List
CNN: 2018 Regeneron Science Talent Search “Junior Nobel Prize” Finalists
The Verge: A teenage girl has created a 3D-printed lens and app that can detect eye disease
Smithsonian Magazine: The Future Is Bright If More Teens Could Think About High School the Way Kavya Kopparapu Does
Refinery 29: Gen-Z Female Entrepreneurs
Alba Botanica: Do Good Do Beautiful Campaign
Speech Videos
2018 TEDx Vienna Talk on Precision Medicine
2021 UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention Talk
2017 WebMD Health Hero Awards Acceptance Speech
2020 Tory Burch Foundation
2017 March for Science DC Speech
2018 The AI Conference Keynote with Peter Norvig
2018 World Bank Group IFC Sustainability Exchange
2018 Biden Cancer Summit Keynote
2017 Smithsonian Institute Long Conversation with Yo-yo Ma
2017 TEDx Herndon Talk
2017 Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit Guest Keynote
2017 O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference Presentation
2018 USPS STEM Stamp Unveiling at the US Science and Engineering Festival
Feature Videos
HP Madam President Commercial
HP “Faces of Change” Feature
Social Innovation: Meet the teen scientist tackling deadly brain disease
In the Know: This 20 year old scientist is using artificial intelligence to create new medical innovations
