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Python class allowed me to take my
puzzle-solving skills to the next level, "
she describes. " After that summer, I fell
in love with neural engineering and felt
like I'd found my purpose. "
Lieberman enrolled at Santa Clara
University in the fall of 2017, planning to

study both neuroscience and computer
science. A string of summer internships in
software engineering at Microsoft clarified
her focus to major in computer science,
supplemented by classes in psychology
and neuroscience to round out her interests. In her senior year, she audited a class

in cognitive neuroscience and spent the
last six months of her college tenure working as a machine learning engineer and
research assistant at Santa Clara University's Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Lab with Dr. Lang Chen.
Although these opportunities provided some clear direction on where to
take her postcollege career-she will
begin a job as a program manager at
Microsoft in September 2021-none of
this came easily. Throughout college,
Lieberman ended up with five more
concussions, even quitting one of her
Microsoft internships and dropping out
of school entirely for some time. " That
has definitely been a barrier to my entire
journey, but it has given me a purpose
and reason to understand the brain and
use the skill sets I acquire to help further that research, " she explains.

Taking the Lead

Lieberman (second from right) with peers learning about brains during a 2016
internship with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering.

Lieberman on Microsoft's campus.

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Lieberman was active in the Society of
Women Engineers organization during
college as a corporate relations officer.
That role led to her involvement as one
of four student leaders with Uniting
Professional Women Advancing Relationships and Development (UPWARD)
Universities Networking with Intel for
Tomorrow's Engineering & Sciences
(U.N.I.T.E.S.) Women, a partnership
among Santa Clara University, Intel,
and the UPWARD organization aimed
at matching female student engineers
with mentors. " My role was to field applications for mentees, " she says. " I also
helped design program content. "
Student leaders were offered a chance
to moderate the panel programming,
and Lieberman raised her hand for the
first panel, " Navigating Your Career
Confidently, " which featured IEEE
Women in Engineering Magazine Editor-in-Chief Dr. Karen Panetta, among
others. " I found this panel particularly
inspiring, " shares Lieberman. " Women
like Dr. Panetta make me excited about
going into engineering and changing
the status quo. "
Lieberman has also served as a leader
with intern.club, an international network for interns, organized by interns.
" intern.club is just awesome, " says



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