A personal experience helped drive Bailey Renger towards founding a company that puts AI at the center of breast cancer screening. In her 20s, as a PhD student in quantum physics at Brown University, Renger faced a potential cancer diagnosis. However, she found that medical imaging options at the time couldn’t definitively determine whether cancer was present. That spurred a passion for transforming women’s healthcare — and for a way to link her expertise in physics to this pursuit.
Today, as founder and CEO of BeSound, Renger is shifting how breast cancer can be detected using AI-assisted ultrasound imaging technology. BeSound’s approach yields images with higher resolution and produces more information by looking deeper into breast tissue during screenings. The result is a far more comfortable, cost-effective, and definitive experience than traditional mammograms, one Renger says is aimed at “empowering women through better medical imaging.”
Before founding BeSound, Renger conducted scientific research at Harvard University, with a focus on digital quantum computation (aligning with her undergraduate thesis on topological quantum computation at Boston College). She also gained experience at NASA, where she concentrated on space-based quantum networks and astrobiology prior to her work as a PhD candidate in physics at Brown University.
We are delighted to have Renger join our DOC 2025 Faculty and are excited to hear more about her work to transform women’s health at DOC 2025.