In 2016, Computer Science Ph.D. candidate Alireza Bagheri first realized that artificial intelligence would change the world. Two years after receiving his bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Guilan University in Iran, Bagheri began studying for his master’s degree at the University of Akron in Ohio. While there, he co-founded tech startup G-Angel to develop an AI-powered device which could automatically place a catheter into a patient’s blood vessel.

“G-Angel was born from a desire to improve healthcare,” Bagheri says. “Today, I’m continuing in the same direction, designing AI to analyze the vascular system.”  Read the rest of the story here.