About Katharina Hoebel
Katharina is a medical doctor and final-year Ph.D. candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Her primary research interest is to contribute to developing safe and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence algorithms for medical image analysis by studying the collaboration between algorithms and healthcare professionals.
Katharina is working with Prof. Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer in the Quantitative Translational Imaging in Medicine Lab at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. Through her research, she focuses on building a bridge between AI algorithms for medical image analysis and human users. Before that, Katharina graduated with an MD degree from Heidelberg University medical school and B.S. in physics with a minor in computer science from Kiel University in Germany.