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I have a definite career goal to become a world-class researcher in Aerospace Engineering. I choose Cambridge for its top-class faculty and advanced facilities in Aeroacoustics. Upon completion of my PhD program, I will come back to China and continue my research in this area. I look forward to leading my own acoustical lab at a major research university. I believe that a postgraduate experience at Cambridge will greatly benefit both my own career and China’s aerospace industry.

I studied British investment in Chinese railways and coal mines at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Anyone who tries to walk on a single leg is sure to stumble, but walking on the two legs of academic studies and societal service enables me to stride forward. Studying History and Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, my undergraduate research deals with the Sino-British negotiations over the future of Hong Kong, an event with profound implications for the lives of generations of Hong Kong people. By using recently declassified British government records, I challenge existing claims regarding the roles of the Governor of Hong Kong and local elites in the fateful negotiations of the 1980s. I have also worked on a public history project to preserve and publicise knowledge about the declining local fishing industry, and have assisted underprivileged children in their studies as a voluntary teacher. In the MPhil Chinese Studies at Cambridge, I will research the history of Hong Kong-Commonwealth relations, thus adding a special perspective to the fields of Hong Kong’s and China’s foreign relations. I hope to help Hong Kong citizens understand their past and their identities, generate ideas for the future of our city, and encourage my future students to realise their potential and work for the benefit of others. It is definitely my honour to be a member of the Gates Cambridge community. I believe the common experience shared with my peers in the Gates community will empower us to serve people in need with greater ability and commitment.

Previous Education

University of Hong Kong

I am a marine conservationist with work experience in South Asia and West Africa. My PhD at Cambridge examined the ecological and socio-economic impacts of trawl fisheries along the Coromandel coast of India. My research also demonstrated the huge role that the animal feed industry (particularly the poultry industry) in India has on driving overfishing. I have had a long-standing interest in finding ways to reconcile conservation and economic development through policy and practice. My work has involved designing, supporting and implementing projects including the management of marine protected areas, setting up fisheries monitoring programmes and undertaking environment and social impact assessments.

I graduated from Fordham University in 2013 with a bachelors in computer science and women's studies, having written my thesis in queer ethics, and in 2014 with a masters in computer science and a thesis in data mining. The following summer, I became a Data Science for Social Good fellow at the University of Chicago. Since 2012, I have also been conducting a sociological study of sexual and gender minority students. These seemingly disparate fields are theoretically entwined: data mining, like queer theory and sociological methods, fundamentally asks how we create meaning from experiences and observations. My work at Cambridge will continue in this vein and explore the ways emerging public discourse about gays and lesbians both creates and limits possibilities for understanding the experiences of sexual and gender minorities. This project is important both substantively and as a vehicle for my continuing inquiry into the theory and methods of knowledge production.

Previous Education

Fordham University M.S. Computer Science 2014

Links

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jwlock
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwlockhart
https://twitter.com/jw_lockhart
http://storm.cis.fordham.edu/~lockhart

My PhD is about computer programming language semantics. This involves mathematically defining what a program does, thereby being able to prove things about its behaviour. More specifically, I work on denotational semantics for concurrency. I believe that in the not-too-distant future, every safety-critical program will not just be tested to work, but proven to be correct. Disasters caused by program errors such as the explosion of the Arianne 5 rocket in 1996 will be a matter of history. Hopefully my research will help to get a small step closer to this ultimate goal.

Links

http://www.steffenloesch.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffenloesch

Originally from the Seattle, Washington area, I was a Gates Scholar at Cambridge 2008-2011. I investigate how behavioral flexibility relates to invasion success in grackles (an urban bird) and whether training species to be more flexible increases their chances of success in human modified environments as a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. I co-founded Peer Community in Registered Reports (https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/about) which is innovating RRs to make them accessible for all fields and types of research, and co-lead the #BulliedIntoBadScience campaign where early career researchers are working to change academic culture to adopt open research practices to improve research rigor.

Previous Education

Evergreen State College B.S. in Biology 2004
Skagit Valley College A.A. in Acting 2002

Links

https://nerdculture.de/@CorinaLogan
http://www.CorinaLogan.com
https://twitter.com/LoganCorina

In the rural Indian village that my family calls home, I grew up witnessing my grandmother labor endlessly without assistive technology. Her experiences, and those of millions of women, elderly, and people with disabilities worldwide, underpin my dedication to pursue artificial intelligence solutions that bring robotic assistive technology to underprivileged communities. My background as a machine learning researcher and roboticist has enabled me to deeply appreciate the transformative power of technology, while also recognizing that technologists and governments must work together to leverage cutting-edge artificial intelligence to uplift those who need it the most. By pursuing the MPhil in technology policy, I hope to bring regulators, researchers, and the technology industry together to design policy solutions that promote bias-free, robust, and trustworthy artificial intelligence while spurring innovation. I also hope to uplift the voices of vulnerable communities in conversations about technological development and deployment. I’m thrilled to join the Gates Cambridge community and work together with such a diverse and talented group of peers to improve the lives of others.

Previous Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science 2024

I am from Waterford in Ireland and have just finished my undergraduate degree in Trinity College Dublin. I am mainly interested in number theory, ramsey theory and graph theory but have also developed a taste for some geometry recently (mainly differential). I hope to go on to do a PhD in Cambridge in one of the above areas.

I did my MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies with Prof. Yasif Suleiman as a Gates Scholar. Previous to this, I did my undergraduate at Duke University, and I worked in the Middle East as an artist in residence and at various social enterprises and startups. I am now a fashion designer in New York City, especially passionate about ethical, sustainable design and designing for social enterprises, as well as exploring the possibilities of new fashion technologies. I hope to eventually work on a design-based social enterprise in the MENA region to marry my passions and interests.

Aspiring historian. My research interests lie in the transregional composition of legal and normative regimes of gender and sexuality across maritime Asia. Fascinated by the transmission of ideas across geopolitical boundaries, I study the nexus between law and sexual norms in the most intellectually, culturally and linguistically vibrant region in the world—Southeast Asia. I am part of Imagined Malaysia, a Malaysia-based non-profit organisation which aspires to cultivate a transnational appreciation of Southeast Asia’s history. At the University of Nottingham Malaysia, my BA thesis was on the lived experiences of Section 377 in pre-war British Malaya. My MPhil thesis takes a more critical view to challenge the purported hegemony of the colonial legal project in Malaya, examining the reception of Section 377 and 377A in multiethnic, multilingual and plural legal official and unofficial spaces. Since 2022, I have worked closely with senior academics, emerging scholars, and PhD students in archival research efforts in Malaysia and the United Kingdom. My interest in bridging academia and civil society has also motivated my involvement in advocacy efforts in Malaysia along the themes of historical literacy, inter-religious dialogue, and child rights, especially in the EU-funded #TanpaPerkauman public education project in 2021.

Previous Education

University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus Int. Relations with French 2022
Sunway College - 2019

I am happy to be awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship and to be admitted to the University of Cambridge. I hope to make lifelong friends in this wonderful academic community!

Stephanie Gabriela Lopez is the Program Director at LatinasRepresent, an initiative that seeks to increase the number and diversity of Latinas who pursue public service opportunities in the United States. In this role, she oversees and manages strategic planning, development, programming, communications, and coalition work. She is a first-generation Salvadoran-American with experience in international education, children's rights, and immigration advocacy. She earned a Master's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge, while on a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, and holds an undergraduate degree in political science and mass communication and journalism from California State University, Fresno.

Previous Education

Queen's University
University of Oxford

Growing up in Suzhou, a garden city with a splendid history in the east of China, I have always been interested in understanding how intelligence happens and how human brain works. During my undergraduate in Nanjing, I immersed myself in cognitive and developmental psychology and led a volunteer project for rural left-behind children, which influenced me to pursue another meaningful goal of improving the lives of underprivileged or left-behind children in rural areas by exerting my strengths in psychology and education. It was in my graduate period in the Chinese Academy of Sciences that I was exposed to Cognitive Neuroscience training. Captivated by the elegance of human brain, I firmly believe that it is my life career to be a neuroscientist. Thus, I decided to continue my journey with the passionate and outstanding scientists at Cambridge. During my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, I will further focus on the neural mechanism of cognitive control and the functional organization of human brain by using the combination of non-invasive brain stimulation and brain imaging in humans. I am profoundly honoured to be part of the Gates Cambridge community and I immensely look forward to working with others here to bettering the world.

Previous Education

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Psychology 2021
Nanjing Normal University Psychology 2018

Anin received her MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine in 2021, where she researched a variety of historical and philosophical topics around the modern life sciences, particularly related to animals and the environment. She is now pursuing her PhD in History of Science at Princeton University.

Previous Education

Yale University History; Mol Biophys & Biochem 2020

I grew up in a small town halfway between Milan and the Italian Alps, but I earned my BA degree in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, followed by graduate work in cognitive science and neuroscience. I see myself and my work as trying to bridge the gap between mind and matter: building on my MPhil work at Cambridge, my PhD in Clinical Neurosciences will apply measures from network science and information theory to study the brain across multiple states of altered consciousness – such as sleep, anaesthesia and vegetative state. Ultimately, I would like to develop a unified understanding of how consciousness is lost, and how we can promote its recovery in patients. I am also committed to communicating what we know about the brain and the mind, both across disciplines and to the wider public - especially when such knowledge is relevant for mental health. These issues are still surrounded by misunderstanding and stigma, and I believe that accessible knowledge is the best antidote. I also feel that providing this is one of my responsibilities as a scientist: as part of humanity’s quest to gain a more accurate understanding of ourselves and the world we live in, science should not be confined to the lab, and neither should our passion as scholars. I am very excited to be re-joining the community of Gates Scholars at Cambridge: I hope that this incredible experience will allow us to draw inspiration from each other’s work, passion, and perspectives.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Clinical Neuroscience 2018
Oxford University Neuroscience 2017