{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"S5E4 - Paulina Rodriguez: Building Credibility and Authenticity","description":"Early in her applied math journey, Paulina Rodriguez was a little skeptical of calculators and computers. But her desire to really understand what\u2019s going on under the hood has ultimately led to satisfying research. During her Ph.D., she\u2019s explored the credibility of computational models for medical device applications, making sure that researchers understand the accuracy, validity and uncertainty of simulated results. Paulina shares how she honed her problem-solving skills and creativity as she navigated her education. Her enthusiasm and determination are infectious, and she describes her personal struggle to bring her whole self to her work. You'll meet: Paulina Rodriguez, a Ph.D. student in applied math at George Washington University and a fourth-year recipient of the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). Paulina completed her bachelor\u2019s degree at University of California, Santa Cruz and master\u2019s degree at Claremont Graduate University, both in mathematics. Her current research focuses on establishing methods for assessing the credibility of computational models for medical device applications, work that she\u2019s doing at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.   Episode artwork created using ChatGPT from prompts by Paulina Rodriguez. ","author_name":"Science in Parallel","author_url":"http:\/\/scienceinparallel.org","html":"