Hello, world!
These are the first words a programmer (from beginner to software engineer) writes when learning a new language. I can’t yet call myself a programmer, and maybe I never truly will be, but I’ve certainly been chewing through (scientific) code for a few years now. I took the photo last month in Naples, the city where I was born. I had finally taken a week off after an indefinite stretch of work on my PhD.
Ah right, maybe I should introduce myself! I’m Giulia, born in Naples in February 1998, and beautiful Romagna has adopted me since 2003. I love cooking (tiramisù and risotto are my specialties), and after 10 years I’ve gone back to playing basketball with the fantastic @ghettogirlz.ponente. In my free time I try to keep my PhD in Health and Technologies at the University of Bologna moving forward — which, since I’m a biomedical engineer, tries precisely to solve a medical problem using approaches typical of engineering (in this case, I’d say, computer science). My project is about the use of artificial intelligence for lung cancer screening; in particular, my goal is to make the most of the data being collected (both from questionnaires given to participants and from the CT scans acquired) to improve its effectiveness, hoping this will speed up the time it takes for a national screening program to be implemented in our country. Lung cancer is in fact the leading cause of cancer death worldwide! (and, ah, smoking is its leading cause…)
Well, if you’ve made it this far and are cursing me for the lovely news I’m ending on, I wanted to thank you for visiting the site — I hope it can be useful. It will probably be a mix of life and work, but I think that’s a bit of the nature of us ‘Augmented Sapiens.’