Her Story
About Paulina
Paulina Armel is a digital product and AI professional with a background in biomedical engineering. She earned a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering and a master's degree in customer experience and innovation. With over four years of professional experience, she has worked in AI annotation for human-in-the-loop image models while also managing products for medical educational platforms. Her efforts center on adding innovation to settled fields like trauma education through interactive e-books based on real patient cases that incorporate multiple correct answers and subjective analysis. She began her career in a VR medical education and surgical planning startup, drawing on her engineering training to structure problem-solving while applying design thinking and user research to optimize onboarding and platform usability.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Paulina
01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Do what you love, and it sounds cliche, but I've had the opportunity to see that recognition has come with time and achievements appear through time, but the basis of really being successful and excellent at what you do is if you actually enjoy what you do and if you believe in what you do. If you don't really enjoy what you're doing, in the end it doesn't really make sense.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Explore and go a bit out of the box. The path for engineers can be more traditional, guiding to academic research or PhD, but there are so many different things you can do with an engineering degree that might be out of the box. My first job was in a VR medical education startup which I could have never imagined existed. Explore, go a bit out of the way, and you're still gonna use all the lessons and skills from college, but trying things that are friendlier on what you can do after you graduate is going to be way more fulfilling.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
There's a lot of innovation around healthcare, more in the educational field. There's some saturation with information in general, especially in medical education field. Being able to add that twist or innovation to something settled for so many years adds the most value. It's an interactive e-book with multiple correct answers based on real patient cases, implementing interactivity and subjective analysis to drive people away from saturation in education and information.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Respect translated in understanding all the different backgrounds. Having lived in several different countries helps understand that everyone's going through something different, everyone deserves to be respected and heard. Translating that into being empathetic in how we understand, perceive, and treat people in the work that we do.
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