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I completed my PhD in 2012, which focused on the evolution of Islamist civil society movements in Tunisia and Morocco into pro-democracy political movements (and ended up taking a strong focus on how they responded to the Arab spring given events from 2011 onwards). While in Cambridge, I was highly involved in my college – having served as the Trinity Hall MCR President, rowing in the Women’s First VIII and serving on the committee for Trinity Hall Boat Club. Since completing my studies, I have pursued a career in applied research in international development, most recently joining the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office as a Results & Evidence Adviser focused on Sudan.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-linn-12b86546

I want to make it possible for everyone in the world to have free access to an effective and enjoyable education.

Currently, I work at Google developing open-source tools to improve online education. I also serve as a director of the Oppia Foundation, a non-profit whose aim is to make it easy for anyone to create and share interactive, learn-by-doing lessons with students around the world.

At Cambridge, I was a cosmology research student at the Dept. of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics. I enjoyed my work, as I find the Universe fascinating - there is so much we don't know! During my PhD, I worked on investigating certain properties of singularities (points at the 'edge' of spacetime where things break down) as well as the behaviour of various matter components, with an interest in how they might contribute to explaining the dark energy problem (one of the outstanding problems in the field).

My proposed topic, moral dilemmas of contemporary Chinese liberal intellectuals, arises from my long-standing interest. I completed a BA in Journalism in the highest rated institution for journalism in China, Renmin University, and received my Distinction MA in Sociocultural Anthropology at Durham University, UK. Between the two degrees, I have worked as a journalist and editor in Chinese top media organisations for over 11 years. These experiences have granted me first-hand observations, an extensive network analytic skills and narrative approaches. I have written numerous articles concerning the roles and dilemmas of liberal intellectuals, 20 of which were published into my first book, Triste Common Sense (2013). I reckon many ethical paradoxes in everyday life of Chinese liberal intellectuals are largely unheard and untold. By verbalising, representing and analysing their experiences, this project will help us to gain more reflection and recognition on their roles and responsibilities in this era. It will also benefit broader Chinese citizens to get better understandings of the reality of Chinese society, and to take references or inspirations from these intellectuals' choices and struggles.

Previous Education

Durham University Sociocultural Anthropology 2019
Renmin University Journalism 2007

This year I hope to study one of my passions – early American political thought, while making lasting friendships and growing as a whole person.

Over the next year, I will be pursuing research with Drs. David Rubinsztein and Angeleen Fleming exploring the roles autophagy, a cellular recycling process, plays in the nervous system in normal and diseased states. Currently, I plan to work on two aspects of autophagy: its role in the development of the nervous system and its function in clearing protein aggregates. I hope that during my year here, I will be able to contribute to our understanding of the functions of autophagy in the brain.

I am currently studying in the Surface Science Group in the Chemistry Department. The focus of my study is to investigate the ammonia synthesis catalyzed by the compound of FeSx which can be either in the form of nanoparticles or a bulk single crystal (i.e. pyrite single crystal). The aim is to understand why FeSx is able to catalytically reduce nitrogen to ammonia under benign conditions as occurs in extant biology (i.e. nitrogenase) from perspectives of the electronic structure and geometric size and shape. With this effort, it is hoped that a more energetically efficient process for ammonia synthesis can be developed with an aid of optimized biomimetic catalyst.

I'm a master of Biomedical Engineering (BME). I have been studying this major for 7 years. It is a new major emerged in recent years and it employs engineering methodology combined with the knowledge of science, physics and medicine to design various diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices. It's so significant for human health and it is also a symbol of the development level of one country. In the past 3 years, my research mainly focused on rehabilitation devices. We developed intelligent walkers to help patients with disabilities walk normally. In the future, my job will concentrate on clinical neuroscience which will be more useful in clinical practice. After, I will study to develop a new software, called ICM+, which could collect data from bedside monitors to help doctors make an assessment as soon as possible. It bridges the gap between lab and clinical application. My motto is "Cease to struggle and you cease to live".

I have been interested in the application of science and technology to solve global problems, particularly in energy. Despite been one of the most abundant and clean resource, solar energy composes only a negligible fraction of our energy supply today largely due to its high-cost. A promising approach to tackle this problem is to make solar cells using novel materials that are significantly cheaper, such as plastics. In my research, I will specifically investigate the internal geometry of plastic mixtures, which is a key property that needs to be understood and optimized in order to improve upon the currently low performance of the plastic solar cells. I hope that my research may contribute to the global collaborative effort to make solar energy more widely utilized in our society in the future.

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

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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.

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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

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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.