Zenia Haroon

Zenia is an incoming freshman at Duke University. She is currently working as a Robotics Intern in the Research Exploratory Development Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) and has been an ASPIRE intern there for the past two years. She has also interned at MIT FutureMakers in the Summer of 2024 and is a Co-Founder of KineX. Her research at JHUAPL focuses on leveraging machine learning to improve surgical safety by reducing retained surgical instruments in operating rooms, working extensively with YOLO-based object detection models for medical Al applications. She was invited to present a strategic roadmap for Boeing's Urban Air Mobility (UAM) initiative at Boeing's Headquarters, where she won first place. She is also the recipient of the 2024 SWENext Community Award. In entrepreneurship, Zenia is the Co-Founder of KineX, a startup that integrates Al analysis to enhance physical therapy. She and her team won a startup pitch at MIT for this innovation. Beyond research and entrepreneurship, she is passionate about Al ethics and its medical applications. Zenia hopes to leverage her experience in Al research and entrepreneurship to develop impactful solutions that enhance healthcare efficiency and patient outcomes while majoring in Computer Science at Duke.