Michela Meister graduated from BUA in 2010. She received a BS and MS in computer science from Stanford and a PhD in computer science from Cornell. She currently works as a machine learning researcher at Noetik, an AI-native biotech company pioneering self-supervised machine learning and high-throughput spatial data to develop next-generation cancer therapeutics. Previously, she worked as a software engineer at Google Research as well as at a robotics start-up.