Alicia Chong Rodriguez

Health care technology entrepreneur

TED Fellow Alicia Chong Rodriguez is building a bra that could save your life.

Why you should listen

Engineer Alicia Chong Rodriguez is founder of Bloomer Tech, a company transforming everyday bras into smart medical devices that gather often-overlooked data on heart disease in women, a frequently misdiagnosed and under-researched killer. She has dual degrees in electrical engineering and computer science along with integrated design and management from MIT, where she researched sex-specific, computationally generated, cardiac biomarkers at the MIT Computational Cardiovascular Research Group.

Alicia Chong Rodriguez’s TED talk

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Alicia Chong Rodriguez

A smart bra for better heart health

Posted Sep 2021

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