Alice Heiman is a student with a passion for exploring the world through the lens of technology. She started to teach coding at 15 within the non-profit organisation Hello World! Since then, Heiman has advocated getting programming into the Swedish educational curriculum.

In 2021, Heiman became part of the Swedish National Team of Young Scientists with her research project on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Her algorithm examined connections between words and emotions by analysing their usage in literature and songs.

During the past year, Heiman has worked with top NLP researchers at AI Sweden – Sweden’s national institute for applied AI research – to develop a model that can understand and respond to philosophical questions. Based on the robot Klara from Kazuo Ishiguro’s book Klara and the Sun, her experiments resulted in an AI chatbot currently displayed as part of the Nobel Prize Museum exhibition “Eternal Life” in Stockholm.

In June 2022, Heiman graduated from the Natural Science Programme at Viktor Rydbergs Gymnasium Odenplan. Today, she continues to explore and share the exciting possibilities of technology.