Artifact Details

Title

Broadcom Presents Design_Code_Build on April 9, 2016

Catalog Number

102738116

Type

Moving image

Description

Broadcom Presents Design_Code_Build is an interactive STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) experience that introduces Bay Area middle school students to the basic concepts of coding and applied mathematics in order to inspire them to pursue STEM in their future education and careers.

Events are supported by tech professionals who act as role models and mentors, including special keynote speakers, or "rock stars," who kick off each event by sharing their personal stories and experiences. In this event Broadcom Presents Design_Code_Build the Computer History Museum welcomes Verily Life Sciences' Vicky Demas.

Vicky Demas is a chemical engineer focusing in diagnostics, point of care assays and nanotechnology, imaging, physiological and physiometric sensing. Vicky received her Bachelor's from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, while leading a three phase NASA/AFS sponsored project, including designing and running experiments on-board NASA’s KC-135 parabolic flights, using a metal analog to investigate fluid flow in solid-liquid interfaces during casting. She received her PhD from the University of California- Berkeley focusing on research to enable high-resolution NMR and MRI in inhomogeneous fields present in portable systems. She set up multiple international collaborations, and continued research as a fellow in portable magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging with lithography produced micro coils in the Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Labs. After her postdoctoral fellowship, Vicky joined an early stage nanoparticle startup company (T2 Biosystems), where she was instrumental to the development of the first diagnostic instruments (T2Dx and T2MR) and cartridge. The company received FDA approval for its sepsis diagnostic system at the end of 2014. Vicky currently leads the biomedical systems engineering team in the Verily Research Group, focusing on the development of life sciences tools, imaging modalities, including endoscopic and physiometric applications.

Date

2016-04-09

Participants

Broadcom Foundation, sponsor
Demas, Vasiliki, speaker
KLA-Tencor Foundation, sponsor
Oracle, sponsor
SanDisk, sponsor

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, CA

Duration

00:41:49

Format

MOV

Category

Educational

Series Title

Broadcom Presents Design_Code_Build

Credit

Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X7551.2016