PCCI’s Sachs Summer Scholar Interns Set To Advance AI Innovations for Vulnerable Populations
STEM focused program offers female students’ side-by-side experience with AI experts and clinicians
PCCI’s summer intern program, Sachs Summer Scholars, Advancing Women in Data Science and Technology Summer Internship is underway and is a demonstration of PCCI’s ongoing commitment to provide women opportunities to experience new, transformational concepts in the data science and technology industry. The Sachs Summer Scholars program aims to support PCCI’s core mission as an innovation leader that develops scalable solutions focusing on responsible applications of AI-in-Medical Care for vulnerable populations.
As one of the premier STEM-focused internships in North Texas, PCCI’s program immerses students in meaningful, real-world projects with actual impact through practical applications of analytics, computing, and data science, all while advancing the spirit of mentorship and advancement of female students. This program provides each intern direct experience with innovative healthcare, groundbreaking artificial intelligence programs, and non-medical drivers of health (NMDOH) projects.
The 2025 class of Sachs Summer Scholars includes seven women from a wide variety of backgrounds and hailing from four different universities and a North Texas high school. The interns will work side-by-side with PCCI clinical and data science experts to hone their programming and analytics skills while building lifelong memories of meaningful accomplishments. They will focus on core PCCI projects, such as preterm birth prevention, large language models, maternal health, and suicide risk modeling, to name a few.
The 2025 Sach Summer Scholar interns are:
- Xiao (Rachel) Bai from University of Southern California
- Anne Hulme from Southern Methodist University
- Trinity Jones from the University of Texas at Dallas
- Sandra Futwi from Southern Methodist University
- Aditi Nethi from Prosper High School
- Pooja Patil from State University of New York, Buffalo
- Xin Yan from Southern Methodist University
This internship class will present findings based on their work on PCCI projects at a presentation on Friday, August 8 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., at Pegasus Park (MAP) in Room 101. To join virtually, use this link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/23077c98-65ac-4b1e-904f-6fb60e49b7c1@9a2a9ade-704f-4416-b094-47b8a504ad39
Our full 2024 Sachs Summer Scholars End of Term program showcase can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GezENNicf78&t=12s
