Name: Catherine Havasi (STS, 1999; ISEF 1998, 1999)
Job Title: CEO and Cofounder, Dalang Health
About Catherine: Catherine is an American scientist who specializes in artificial intelligence, previously holding a research post at MIT Media Lab. She is cofounder of the analytics company Luminoso which she ran for eight years. She is currently a board advisor there and is working on her new startup, Dalang.
Education:S.B. and M.Eng from MIT; Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brandeis University.
What does leadership mean to you?
Leadership, to me, is about innovating, operationalizing that innovation, and communicating. It’s about listening to those around you, challenging common notions about what can be accomplished, and showing how new ways of working can become second nature