Youna Chung wrote
First and foremost I would like to thanks WICs for including me as one of the guest at the mentor lunch with Professor Stelia Atkins. She is an extraordinary woman with a passion for her work. She is highly renowned for her work in areas such as Medical Image Display and Analysis, and telehealth issue.One of the key topics that we discussed over the lunch was her current research on eye trackers technology and team setting. Most research done using eye tracker technologies is geared towards the individual but Professor Stelia Atkins research focuses more on the team aspect. To aid in understanding the research she gave an example of a surgeon with his/her team of nurses in an operating room. The reason why a surgery run smoothly and faster because the surgeon has worked with his/her teams of nurse for years, that the nurse are able to anticipate the doctor next order or action. By using the eye tracker technology to follow the eye movement of the surgeon and nurses we would be able to analyze the movement and train new surgeons and his or her team to anticipate the next course of action without speaking to each other,
It is phenomenal research and I wish Professor Stella Akins and her team the very best and hope to read more about it in the near future.
As for the other ladies at the mentor lunch, you guys are incredible and will go on do extraordinary things. It was a special experience and it has motivated me more to continue pursuing computer science as a degree.
Jiahui Xu wrote
I’m glad that WICS can provide us with such a fabulous opportunity to talk to Professor Stella Atkins and get close to the frontier of the research work in Computing Science and Medical field. Her current research in eyetracker, which she discussed briefly at the lunch, gave us a deeper insight into how Computing Science can be applied in Medical research, and made me feel those profound technologies actually exist around us, and we can be part of them if we try. It also gave me a basic idea of how researches are done in Computing Science Labs, as well as how the research results can be applied in various areas (e.g. the eyetracker Professor Stella Atkins is working on now can be used in education, advertising, sports, etc.).
Professor Stella Atkins herself is a very kind lady, gentle and affable. She encourages females to get engaged more actively in Computing Science and researches. Himalayan Peak is a good restaurant too and I enjoyed the food there (I think everyone did).
Liyang Zhang wrote
The mentor lunch with Professor Stella Atkins was an amazing experience.
She is a very friendly, intelligent, and enthusiastic professor. Her research focuses on Medical Image Display and Analysis, and telehealth issues. I find her area of research very interesting. Particularly, I was amazed when she talked about the use of eyetrackers to detect the thoughts a human brain. The use of eye trackers for doctors in the surgery room is very interesting. She told us that by using eye trackers for the nurses, the nurses would be able to see what the doctors are thinking. For example, the nurses would know which tools the doctors need. I also get an opportunity to ask her the skills that are required as a researcher so that maybe one day I could have an opportunity to work with her.”
Shaya Zahabioun wrote
It was a great pleasure for me to meet Professor Stella and know more about her researches. From the first time I heard about her medical related researches I was curious to talk to her. We had a great Indian lunch and enjoyed talking to Professor Stella who is very honorable, warm  and genuine. She explained about her Eyetracker research which was really interesting. The research is about creating new eye glasses which can detect the eye’s movement. There is an analyzing system that understands what the user is looking at, depend on the current view of environment. In this way distractions can be detected while driving or listening to someone else. As Professor Stella explained it has another usage in surgery in which it helps nurses to know the next tools the doctor need and hand it to him.