When Miriam Hochwald started Girl Geek Coffees two years ago on a hunch, she did not anticipate it would one day take the world by storm. But that is definitely a possibility now.

The original Brisbane group has expanded to include chapters in all major Australian universities and in the last month spread to start-up cells in New York, Boston, Stanford, Vancouver and even Punjab and Islamabad in Pakistan.

Geeky girls enjoy each other's company at a recent Girl Geek Coffees gathering.

A gifted mathematician and PhD in computer science, Hochwald confesses she created the group because she felt lonely in an industry that still does not know how to relate to the few women in its midst.

"A male colleague asked me at a (mixed) networking event last week what sexual position I prefer.