Alicia Chong Rodriguez is Founder and CEO of Bloomer Tech, a company that addresses healthcare disparities in cardiovascular care for women through personalized medicine using Bloomer Tech-augmented garments. She has received awards such as the MIT Legatum Fellowship and the Biennial MIT Graduate Women of Excellence. Chong Rodriguez has presented a TED Talk, "A Smart Bra for Better Heart Health". She is recognized as a TED Fellow, Medtech Boston 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovator, and one of the top 100 Female Founders in the US by Inc. Magazine. She is Founder of MenTe (Mujeres en Tecnología). She led the first Association for Computing Machinery Women group in Latin America at Tec de Monterrey and launched the National Network of Women in Technology in Costa Rica. She has held engineering positions at HP and Teradyne.
Chong Rodriguez holds degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT.