Alicia Chong Rodriguez

Alicia Chong Rodriguez is the Founder and CEO at Bloomer Tech, a company addressing sex-differences in cardiovascular care for women by using the Bloomer Tech-Augmented Garment (TAG), a wearable bra, for personalized healthcare. She graduated in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT along with the MIT Integrated Design and Management Program. Her research focused on sex-specific, computationally-generated, cardiac biomarkers at the MIT Computational Cardiovascular Research Group. She received the MIT Legatum Fellowship and the Biennial MIT Graduate Women of Excellence Award. Her TED Talk on A SMART BRA FOR BETTER HEART HEALTH has over 1.9 million views. In 2023, Bloomer Tech was awarded as a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and has been covered by WSJ, CBS, The Today Show, NPR and others.. She has also been recognized as a TED Fellow, Medtech Boston 40 under 40 Healthcare Innovator, and in the top 100 Female Founders across the U.S. by Inc Magazine.