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Maryam Sadeghi is a Canadian scientist and entrepreneur working in the area of skin health technology. Her company MetaOptima developed the MoleScope, a small microscope that works with smart phones to allow the tracking and monitoring of skin moles. It is a consumer-oriented device that has a magnification tool and a light source, along with a cloud-based platform that allows users to monitor suspicious growths through analysis and archiving of changes in size and colour.

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Sadeghi was also part of a team that developed UVCanada—a free public health education app for sun protection.

She holds a PhD in computing science from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in the area of medical image analysis. Her PhD thesis, titled Towards prevention and early diagnosis of skin cancer: computer-aided analysis of dermoscopy images, won the Doctoral Dissertation Award 2012 Honourable Mention from the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS).

Awards and recognitions

  • WaveFront's Wireless Prize package ($40,000) in the BCIC-New Ventures Competition in 2013
  • Prize in the Plug & Play Silicon Valley competition in Vancouver in July 2014.
  • SFU Dean's Convocation Medal, 2012.
  • Nominee, YWCA Women of Distinction Award, 2016.
  • References

    Maryam Sadeghi Wikipedia