Brittany Wenger
American student (born 1994)
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Brittany Wenger (born 1994) is a pediatrician[1][2] who was the first-place winner of the Google Science Fair when she was a high school student in 2012.
For her entry into the science fair, Wenger trained a statistical model to predict signs of breast cancer given nine features from the breast tissue samples as an input representation.[3][4] She used neural networks to train the develop the statistical model,[5] which is currently 99.1 percent sensitive to malignancy.[6] As the first-place winner, she received a $50,000 scholarship.[7]
Wenger spoke about her software at the TEDx Atlanta conference in 2012,[8] and TEDx CERN conference in 2013.[9] In 2013, representing Out-of-Door Academy, she was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search and was awarded 8th place.[5]
Wenger studied at Duke University[10] for her undergraduate degree and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai[1][2] for her medical degree.
