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I’m particularly interested in the genetic and environmental determinants of common diseases and the translation of research into primary care and public health practice. At Cambridge I will pursue an MPhil in epidemiology to prepare for a career in genetic epidemiology and public health genetics. I hope to work with the CDC’s Center for Genomics & Disease Prevention or the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH to understand and resolve the complex genetic conditions of special populations. Next fall I will return to the United States to begin a PhD program in Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

I strongly believe in the power of modern diplomacy to prevent and resolve conflict and address challenges. But diplomacy must evolve to meet the changing needs of a globalized world and adapt to new realities that are characterized by the emergence of non-traditional non-state actors, the increase of IT and social media, interdependent economies, and environmental and global health concerns. Another key issue to be addressed is the gross underrepresentation of women in leadership and their lacking participation in diplomatic efforts, into which issue I gained extensive insight during my internship at UN-Women. Progress can be achieved by making diplomatic practice more transparent, inclusive, and accessible, allowing for innovative and creative collaboration among relevant diplomatic levels and actors in efforts to tackle complex new challenges. As a Palestinian-German woman and aspiring peace mediator, I wish to contribute to the evolution of diplomacy to better uphold human rights and respond to humanitarian and societal concerns. Having grown up in Palestine under conflict, I experienced firsthand its detrimental, multi-faceted impact on people's lives. For my research, I will analyze arguments that link conflict to ethnic identity while examining the role of leadership.

Previous Education

Connecticut College International Relations 2019
Connecticut College Architectural Studies 2019

After earning her PhD from the University of Cambridge, Hilary moved to ABQMR, Inc., a company renowned for designing and building magnetic resonance (MR) equipment for custom – often exotic – applications, such as monitoring pollution through arctic sea ice using helicopter-borne MR and imaging plant root structures through natural soils in greenhouses and the agricultural field. In 2020, she was elected president. Hilary enjoys the diversity of her research at ABQMR applying MR to a variety of industrially relevant problems.

Previous Education

Montana State University Chemical Engineering 2011

Links

https://abqmr.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilary-fabich

Born and bred in Moscow, I moved to Cambridge to read for the Theological Tripos, followed by the Hebrew Bible MPhil in the Divinity Faculty. It did not take me long to fall in love with the exhilarating academic environment at Cambridge, and I was excited and honoured to join the Gates Cambridge community to do my PhD here as well. My academic interests centre on the literature, language, history, and religion of ancient Israel from its origins to the Second Temple Period. My work revolves particularly around the scribal culture behind the production of the Hebrew Bible.

Product leader and creative technologist working at the intersection of design and data. Most recently served as the Director of Product Operations and Analytics at Artsy, a startup working to bring all the world's art online and make it freely accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

I recently graduated with BSc Mathematics from the University of Warwick and at Cambridge I intend to further expand my knowledge of mathematics by studying for Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. My main areas of interest are probability theory and combinatorics and I believe that Part III will be an excellent culmination of my preparation for PhD study. On completion of Part III, I expect to be equipped with a wide range of powerful mathematical knowledge and skills, eager to start working on my own contribution to the world of mathematics.

I am studying the interdependence between technology and organizational processes in developing countries. My PhD research looks at the implementation of information systems in two developmental domains in Morocco: health care coverage and the justice system. I have an engineering background with work experience in the biomedical and the aeronautic industries. I am married and have two children.

Growing up in a developing country, I was deeply impressed by how science and technology have improved the quality of people’s life. On the other hand, as I was volunteering in science education in remote villages, I also realized education and medical care are distributed unequally in some undeveloped regions. With my ultimate goal of making everyone around the world have equal right to basic medical care, I was determined to become a medical scientist and to develop useful and affordable therapies to improve people’s lives. I am excited and honoured to be joining the Gates Cambridge community for my PhD after my undergraduate study in Xiamen University, China. During my PhD in Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan’s lab, I will work on improving and possibly discovering new therapies for tuberculosis infection. As one of the oldest known human infectious diseases, tuberculosis continues being a leading cause of death from infectious diseases. It caused about 1.3 million deaths and 10.4 million infection cases in 2016 (WHO 2017). Nowadays, the rapid increase of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis strains is the main challenge in the battle against this disease. I will mainly focus on host innate immune reactions against bacterial infection. By targeting on the key molecules and pathways in host immune system, I hope to provide new ideas in the treatment of tuberculosis, including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

Previous Education

Xiamen University

I am from Hefei City, a medium-sized city in the Yangtze River Delta Plain in the People's Republic of China. I went to Haverford College in the United States for my undergraduate studies, and was a double major in history and chemistry. In Cambridge I am working on the cultural history of late imperial China, focusing on the interpretation of a particular literary genre, biji (notebook, or collection of miscellaneous articles), written in the Qing dynasty and early Republican China. After graduating from Cambridge I pursued a law degree at Stanford. I then returned to China to founded a history journal called the Oriental Historical Review (OHR). Currently I am the executive editor of the journal based in Beijiing.

The idea of versatile models able to identify and utilise complex patterns in data has always been an intriguing part of Information Engineering. Whilst studying at the University of Cambridge, I conducted multiple research projects with a special focus on a family of such models called deep neural networks. Applied to areas ranging from speaker diarisation to active learning, I slowly started to understand the wide ranging applicability, but also drawbacks of this family of approaches. One of these drawbacks is the lack of uncertainty estimation, the ability to account a model’s prediction to various causes of uncertainty, and this is where I will focus my research. I plan on developing efficient neural networks that will be able to quantify different types of uncertainties, and apply them in both high-risk and sensitive domains, where previously, such models would not have been applicable due to a limited understanding of how and when they work.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Eng. Tripos (Information Eng.) 2021

We seek to engineer biological systems from modular, interchangeable and standarized components. I am currently working on the development of computational-genetic tools for automation of cell growth and gene activity analysis. The aim of my PhD project is to contribute to a better understanding of the genetic and mechanical mechanisms underlying plant development. I'm very grateful to the Gates Cambridge Trust for this great opportunity.

At Stellenbosch University in South Africa, I studied mathematics and computer science. At the University of Cambridge, I will pursue an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science. My interest in these subjects is rooted in the enjoyment of acquiring a deep and thorough understanding of a topic at hand. This I regard as a process that heavily relies on the development of a suitable formal language. Formal languages are omnipresent in computer science and are fundamental in the development of, for example, network protocols or programming languages. My current research interests lie in the applications of category theory and mathematical logic to formal language theory. I am also interested in the related area of proof assistants and their use in building provably correct software. The abstract nature of these topics leads to potential applications in a wide range of subjects. Thus, I hope to be an inspiration to and equally be inspired by the multidisciplinary and diverse Gates Cambridge community.

Previous Education

University of Stellenbosch Mathematics 2022
University of Stellenbosch Mathematics 2021