Ava Kouhana
Research Assistant
Profiles
Biography
Ava Kouhana is a French master’s student in Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. She joined for 6 months Harvard Ophthalmology and AI lab as a short-term visiting student researcher. Beforehand, she has worked on several projects in parallel with her studies both in AI and Statistics.
For eight months, she worked on a research project under the supervision of Professor A. Tsybakov on statistical methods for fast image recovery under noisy compressed sensing. Doing so, she developed skills in theoretical statistics using wavelet decomposition and algorithms used in solving linear inverse problems.
She also worked on an NLP project whose aim was to build a deep learning model to model the consequences of Twitter publications on the prices of economic markets.
In the lab, Ava is mainly interested in developing statistical and generative AI methods for research projects in ophthalmology. She participated as a co-author of several papers and gave a lecture as part of the Harvard AI in medicine course, focusing on kernel functions, random forests, bootstrapping (AdaBoost, XG Boost), and support vector machines.
Starting February 2024, Ava will be joining Stanford in the department of radiology for 6 months as a Visiting Student Researcher to pursue her research interests.