Ria was a researcher at MIT, when she got deeply interested in artificial intelligence. At first, she built AI systems to reveal events inside the human body. At the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, she developed an algorithm to identify changes in genetic pathways that underlie breast cancer, and at MIT Media Lab, she developed a device to automate stethoscope auscultation. Over time, his research has converged on this most complex and least understood organ: the human brain. She has built AI systems that model facets of human intelligence and human language processing. She is curious about what we are going to do about computer vision and attends conferences on the subject.