Maria Theresa Licka
Joined Global Talent Mentoring in April 2021
Germany
Computer and Information Sciences
Nominated by Cybermentor
Specific Research Interest

Data Sci­ence | Pre­ci­sion Med­i­cine | Med­i­cine and AI | Dig­i­tal Health | Busi­ness Man­age­ment | Entre­pre­neur­ship | Machine Learning

I Love My STEMM Subject Because

Since I was very young, I have been inter­est­ed in and fas­ci­nat­ed by sci­ence. After my first expe­di­tion to Sil­i­con Val­ley, I start­ed focus­ing on Com­put­er Sci­ence (IT) and Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (AI), and I real­ized my first projects. I am also inter­est­ed in med­i­cine and the imple­men­ta­tion of AI and ML as pace­mak­ers in future research for bet­ter diag­nos­tics and nov­el ther­a­pies in health­care. I start­ed with small STEM projects very ear­ly on. In 2019, my team part­ner and I devel­oped the project ‘Fall Detec­tion App/AI,’ which we were asked to present at the AI CON of BOSCH, an annu­al inter­na­tion­al Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence con­fer­ence with experts from indus­try and acad­e­mia. In 2020, we start­ed the project ‘Vine Leaf Dis­ease and AI,’ now called “MAIWY,” an APP/AI solu­tion for detec­tion and clas­si­fi­ca­tion of vine leaf pests. The project was award­ed sev­er­al prizes in nation­al pupil com­pe­ti­tions, such as BWKI, Jugend Forscht, and Jugend Grün­det. I am increas­ing­ly fas­ci­nat­ed by the inter­dis­ci­pli­nar­i­ty and vari­ety of machine learn­ing appli­ca­tions, their emerg­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties, eth­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions, and poten­tial impact on our every­day lives.

Activities and Recognitions
  • Speak­er at 87.Bildverarbeitungsforum, Hei­del­berg, Ger­many (2024)
  • Keynote speak­er at 7th Euro­pean machine Vision Forum, an annu­al event of the Euro­pean Machine Vision Asso­ci­a­tion — EMVA, Mul­house, France (2024)
  • Semes­ter abroad at Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Bareke­ly, USA (2024)
  • 2nd place at the hei-inno­va­tion Idea Com­pe­ti­tion, a prize for inno­v­a­tive ideas with poten­tial of great change, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hei­del­berg, Ger­many (2024)
  • 1st audi­ence award hei-Inno­va­tion Ideas Com­pe­ti­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hei­del­berg, Ger­many (2024)
  • Bach­e­lor stu­dent in Busi­ness Man­age­ment at Rhein­land-Pfälzis­che Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Kaiser­slautern-Lan­dau (RPTU) (since 2023)
  • Schol­ar­ship hold­er from, and spokesper­son for, Stu­di­en­s­tiftung des deutschen Volkes, the largest and old­est Ger­man spon­sor­ship organ­i­sa­tion for the aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly gift­ed, Ger­many (since 2023)
  • Mod­er­at­ed a region­al event called Pick Your Stu­dent at the TECHNOSEUM (2023)
  • Pan­elist in the Nation­al MINT Forum, Berlin, Ger­many (2023)
  • Trainee at the Hentze Group at the Euro­pean Mol­e­c­u­lar Biol­o­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry (EMBL), Hei­del­berg, Ger­many (2023)
  • 3rd place at the Dig­i­tal Twin Hackathon orga­ni­za­ed by Fraun­hofer Insti­tute for Exper­i­men­tal Soft­ware Engi­neer­ing (IESE), Kaiser­slautern, Ger­many (2023)
  • 2nd place at the KI-Garage, and accel­er­a­tor pro­gram in Ger­many (2023)
  • Bach­e­lor stu­dent in Com­put­er Sci­ence at Rhein­land-Pfälzis­che Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Kaiser­slautern-Lan­dau (RPTU) (since 2022)
  • Men­tor­ing the 2022 nation­al win­ner project in the Jugend Grün­det, a nation­wide online com­pe­ti­tion for stu­dents in Ger­many, fol­lowed by a win­ner’s trip to San Fran­cis­co to vis­it suc­cess­ful high-tech com­pa­nies and meet with CEOs and pres­ti­gious aca­d­e­m­ic researchers (2022)
  • Hon­orary cer­tifi­cate for top start-ups in schools by the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry for Eco­nom­ic Affairs and Cli­mate Pro­tec­tion (BMWK) (2022)
  • Win­ner of the AI spe­cial prize at the Jugend Grün­det Com­pe­ti­tion, a nation­wide online com­pe­ti­tion for stu­dents in Ger­many (2022)
  • Win­ner of the Envi­ron­men­tal Engi­neer­ing Award at Jugend forscht, a Ger­man youth sci­ence com­pe­ti­tion (2021)
  • Win­ner of the spe­cial award at the Bun­deswet­tbe­werb Kün­stliche Intel­li­genz (BWKI), a nation­al AI com­pe­ti­tion for stu­dents in Ger­many (2020)
  • 3rd place at the Ideen­wet­tbe­werbs, a prize for inno­v­a­tive ideas with poten­tial of great change, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hei­del­berg, Ger­many (2020)
  • CIO and CEO of MAIWY, an App/AI detect­ing grape vine leaf dis­eases (since 2020)
  • CIO and CEO of INFOr­mAt­Ic Teens (since 2019)
  • Teen reporter for the Euro­pean Researchers’ Night at the Euro­pean Mol­e­c­u­lar Biol­o­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry (EMBL), Hei­del­berg, Ger­many (2018)
  • Mem­ber of Euro­pean Mol­e­c­u­lar Biol­o­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry (EMBL) Teens and Friends, Hei­del­berg, Ger­many (since 2018)
  • Par­tic­i­pat­ed in Women in Sci­ence Project, a project to pro­mote gen­der equal­i­ty and sup­port women in sci­ence, at the Euro­pean Mol­e­c­u­lar Biol­o­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry (EMBL), Hei­del­berg, Ger­many (2019, 2020)
  • Mentee at Cyber­Men­tor, Ger­many’s largest online men­tor­ing pro­gram for girls in STEM (since 2017)
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