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Interested in language, culture, and fostering connection, I research these as a PhD student at Stanford University. I also make language-focused t-shirts intended to spur conversations!

I am currently undertaking an MPhil in Engineering which aims to model the effect of communication quality on design process performance and to establish potential applications, such as improvements in manufacturing. I believe this research course will be invaluable in the engineering industry, where I aspire to be an integral part.

I am a Research Scientist at Google AI in Mountain View, California, working on machine learning research.

Previously, I was a PhD student in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. My PhD research focused on developing algorithms for machine learning, mainly focused on semi-supervised learning, curriculum learning, multitask learning, and graph-based problems. I am also passionate about applying machine learning methods in neuroscience, in order to study how the brain understands language and controls speech.

Before I joined CMU, I graduated with an M.Phil. in Advanced Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, UK. In my Master's thesis I used Machine Learning methods to detect and align chromosomes in microscope images, advised by Prof. Pietro Lió.

Previous Education

Polytechnic University of Timisoara BSc in Computer Science 2014

Links

https://otiliastr.github.io
https://www.facebook.com/otilia.stretcu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/otiliastr

Having finished grammar school at an early age, I took up the challenge of exploring some of the wide-ranging interests that I have. I have completed degrees in Philosophy, Political Science and Italian, in Leiden and Paris. I have since focused my studies on European law and international economic relations, obtaining an LLM in European Law at Leiden and completing an MPhil in International Relations at Oxford, where my main focus has been the external economic relations of the European Union. For my PhD in Law I have looked at the progressive shaping of the Single European Market in the field of foreign direct investment. This relatively understudied area of the European economic constitution has a major bearing on the international regulation of FDI, both within the Union and in the relations of the European Union with third countries.

Medical oncologist, health economist, and health services researcher at the University of Michigan and the Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management and Research.

My work centers on the intersections of of novel drug dosing regimens, clinical trial methodologies, and health economics -- All in an effort to enhance outcomes, reduce the economic burdens of treatment, and increase access to drugs for individuals with cancer, all while achieving financial sustainability of the healthcare system.

Previous Education

University of Iowa Chemistry, BA, Biochemistry, BS 2008

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University of Arizona

Links

https://linkedin.com/in/allison-strom

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University of Southern California
University of Cambridge

Pediatrician, father and husband.

Early marriage and bridal trafficking in Rajasthan, sexual violence in Mumbai, female circumcision among Dawoodi Bohras: my experiences as a journalist and researcher have exposed me to diverse geographies, socio-economic realities and cultural prejudices that young women across India face. Home, however, is the place where I first found my bearings. As a survivor of domestic violence, my feminism got defined by my mother's everyday negotiations within the structures that cultivate and normalise the culture of silence. It drove me to challenge patriarchal notions of leadership and become sensitive to differences. Gender became a way of seeing the world. Backed by my rich field insights, multimedia skills and a feminist consciousness, I am excited to return to Cambridge to pursue my PhD as a Gates Cambridge scholar. My study straddles the areas of climate justice and gender equality. In India's historically drought-prone and caste-ridden Marathwada region, I seek to combine a multi-sited feminist ethnography with an informed interpretation of oral folk poetry, to understand the historical compulsions, lived experiences and gendered labour burdens of Dalit and Adivasi girls in a climate crisis. My fundamental interest in pursuing the project stems from my yearning to reconcile collaborative storytelling with pressing marginalised realities.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Multi-disciplinary Gender Stud 2017
Tata Institute of Social Sciences Media and Cultural Studies 2015

My particular interest is in studying infectious diseases afflicting communities in low-income countries and thereby engineering novel ways to counter them. Malaria is an unrelenting disease in Zambia, as it is in many other countries of the sub-Sahara. Based at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, I will use the latest life science research methodologies at large scale to study the pathways utilized by the wily malaria parasite to invade human erythrocytes. This approach may uncover specific invasion molecules associated with severe clinical malaria, potentially important candidates for future vaccine or drug development. I look forward to being a part of this eclectic community of scholars and honing my skills as a scientist under the mentorship of leading malaria researchers at the Sanger.

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University of Pennsylvania BA (Biochemistry & Biology), MSc (Chemistry) 2008

During my undergraduate degree in Geography at Cambridge I became fascinated with glaciology, leading me to pursue an MPhil degree in Polar Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute. My research interests have gradually become focussed on Antarctic ice shelves – the floating extensions of outlet glaciers that restrain the discharge of glacial ice into the ocean. Under increasing atmospheric temperatures vast meltwater systems are likely to become more prevalent across ice shelves in Antarctica, which poses a threat to their stability as water provides a powerful mechanism of driving fractures through the ice. In my doctoral research, I will continue to focus on the stability of ice shelves in Antarctica. Using remote sensing and machine learning techniques I will set out to produce a continent-wide, three-dimensional dataset of meltwater storage and potential flow pathways on Antarctic ice shelves. In this way, I endeavour to further our understanding of the sensitivity of the Antarctic ice sheet to anthropogenic climate change and thereby hope to contribute to a growing body of scientific literature that informs policymaking in a time of environmental crisis.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Polar Studies 2024
University of Cambridge Geography 2022

After growing up in a mill town in Washington State, I attended the University of Washington in Seattle. There I took a smattering of courses, from Latin to photography, and spent my first two years as a classical guitar major. I ended up graduating with degrees in English, Philosophy, and Neurobiology. After graduation, I spent last year abroad on a Bonderman Travel Fellowship. This was an amazing experience. It took me from South America, 2400 meters high at a New Year's Eve rave in the Valley of the Dead, to diving 20 meters deep in a tropical ocean with nothing but a snorkel. I was able to spend time in the metropolis of Tokyo as well as a night with Chinese monks in a Zen temple. At Cambridge I am pursuing my interest in neurobiology, studying stem cells and remyelination in an effort to repair the spinal cord after injury and disease.

I was born and raised in Nigeria. I first attended Federal College of Education, Kano (an advanced teachers training collage), where I earned an advanced level certificate in two majors i.e., Geography and English language. I later proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where I completed a BA in Archaeology. It was out of the previous A-level knowledge in Geography and fieldwork experiences that I developed an interest in Paleo-Environmental Studies, specifically the life-histories of landscape and the connections between past human societies and physical landscapes in Nigeria. I have been researching on how past societies in Northern Nigeria utilized the geo-environmental provisions around them and my immediate goal is to develop a career in that direction; because I believed that a proper understanding of past environmental and social systems is invaluable to how we approach and solve contemporary social and environmental problems. I hope to collaborate with the Cambridge community members and other Scholars to promote education and research and to achieve my long-term goals of advancing my country's knowledge of its centuries old diverse history. I am greatly honoured to be part of the Gates Cambridge community.

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Ahmadu Bello University Archaeology 2014

I intend to pursue a PhD in Geoarchaeology. My goal is to investigate the landscape history of the Aksum region, northern Ethiopia, and to examine the human-environment relationship through a long-term perspective. I see my research placed within a broader trend which explicitly aims to contribute through the archaeological data to help inform contemporary debates regarding risk assessment and sustainable development in Africa.

I first became interested in the mystery of autism while researching my undergraduate dissertation at Royal Holloway and decided to apply for a PhD to answer some of the questions that my dissertation raised after a year of work experience in London on developmental disorders. I was born in the USA (Seattle), grew up mainly in Colorado, and moved to England with my family when I was 15.

My name is Luning Sun. Lu and Ning stand for the two provinces where my parents come from. I was born in Qingdao, China, a beautiful city along the coast. I stayed in a boarding school for three years, before I was admitted into Chuko Chen Honors College, Zhejiang University. I spent one semester as an exchange student in Germany, and I enjoyed my time there very much. I furthered my study in Munich after college, where I worked as a research assistant at a psychiatric hospital and got involved in various research projects, including both clinical studies on patients and behavioral experiments with normal participants. Based on my interests in psychological testing, I applied for a PhD position at the Psychometrics Center, Cambridge. Fortunately, I got the offer together with the Gates Cambridge Trust. Now I am working as a research associate, working on the ICAR project. I am interested in test development for educational, occupational as well as clinical assessment.

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

During the fourth year of my undergraduate medical studies in Moscow, I developed an interest in radiology and then undertook two consecutive summer research placements at the Department of Radiology in Cambridge. Coming back to the Department as a PhD student, I will focus my work on facilitating clinical translation of hyperpolarised 13C-pyruvate magnetic resonance spectroscopy by identifying the niche clinical areas where it can revolutionise care for patients with prostate cancer. Moreover, I will continue coordinating the UK-Russia Young Medics Association, a student-led project through which more than 80 clinical and research exchanges between medical students, junior doctors and early career biomedical researchers of the two countries have been arranged over the past two years. Seeing how long-term professional collaborations, friendships and de novo institutional links flourish under the Association, I am strongly convinced that in times of global instability it is science diplomacy that has the unlimited and yet unexplored capacity for bringing people together. Hence, I look forward to making the most of my time in Cambridge to gain skills and establish networks needed to use my scientific prowess to achieve breakthroughs in cancer diagnosis and champion science diplomacy on a global scale.

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Sechenov University General Medicine 2019

Peter graduated with a degree in History from Dartmouth College in 2012. Originally from Slovakia, he has lived and worked in South Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and in the Balkans. He is the author of 'Visions of Development,' an upcoming monograph on the portrayal of themes of development in documentary films made by the Government of India, as well as 'The Undiscovered Country,' a documentary film on challenges to public education in the Marshall Islands. He has worked with Youth Bridge Global, an organization aiming to bridge ethnic divides in Bosnia and Herzegovina through theater, The Learning Center of Kathmandu, a grassroots NGO in Nepal, and PharmaSecure, a public health social enterprise in New Delhi. Much of Peter's research and professional work revolves around the link between education and international development, and he is excited to join Cambridge's Faculty of Education to pursue this interest further.

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Dartmouth College