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Mini Bio

Heather D. Couture is a consultant and founder of Pixel Scientia Labs, where she accelerates computer vision projects in people and planetary health.

Short Bio

Heather D. Couture is a consultant and founder of Pixel Scientia Labs, where she partners with mission-driven founders and R&D teams to support applications of computer vision for people and planetary health. She has a PhD in Computer Science and has published in top-tier computer vision and medical imaging venues. She hosts the Impact AI Podcast and writes regularly on LinkedIn, for her newsletter Computer Vision Insights, and for a variety of other publications.

Long Bio

Heather D. Couture is a Computer Vision Consultant and Founder of Pixel Scientia Labs. She has two decades of experience in computer vision and machine learning, half of those with applications to pathology. She completed an MS at Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina, where her research focused on developing deep learning methods to predict breast cancer molecular biomarkers from H&E. She has published in top-tier computer vision and medical imaging venues, writes regularly on LinkedIn, for her newsletter Computer Vision Insights, and hosts the Impact AI Podcast.

As a consultant, Heather works with startups to reduce the trial-and-error of model development. She makes use of the latest machine learning research to amplify their results and support their in-house team for the long term. Her mission is to fight cancer and climate change with AI – and she does that by strengthening the machine learning component of her clients’ most impactful projects.