Caeley Harihara

Caeley is a second-year student at MIT, pursuing an MBA and a master’s in electrical engineering and computer science. She is studying applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare, including use cases such as medical software, devices, and workflow improvement. Most recently, Caeley interned as a research fellow at Johnson & Johnson, where she studied and built optimization models to improve hospital operations and inventory management.

Prior to MIT, Caeley was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and also worked as an Associate Strategy Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Discovery & Tools team. In this role, she helped identify and support promising artificial intelligence applications for the Medical Software and Devices portfolio. Caeley graduated from Princeton University with a B.S. in electrical engineering and a minor in finance. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, playing tennis, and baking anything with chocolate.