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My main academic interests have led me to the Development Studies MPhil at Cambridge, which I finished in 2010. Being at Cambridge, and being a Gates Scholar. was, without exaggeration, one of the best experiences in my life. Once I finished my MPhil, I took a year off. I have now started PhD, at the Development Studies Centre, under the supervision of Dr Ha-Joon Chang. In my PhD, I will explore the political economy of state dissolution. This topic started off from my interest in former Yugoslavia, for which I hold that the "ethnic-hatred" and similar explanations for its dissolution are woefully inadequate. I wish to see whether political economy plays a far greater, but much less explored, role in the process of state dissolution (not only in the case of Yugoslavia). I consider myself a heterodox economist, and, besides my PhD, I also wish to use my time at Cambridge to do what I can to further reform in the economics academia.

In 2007 the Gates Scholarship allowed me to leave the practice of law to study International Relations at Cambridge. My MPhil dissertation drew on my experience of working on the Saddam Hussein trial in 2005 and examined the use of Joint Criminal Enterprise Liability in the Iraqi High Tribunal. My PhD research then explored the legal twilight surrounding the private military and security industry and allowed me to gain the expertise to become one of the leading experts on matters relating to the regulation, governance and oversight of private security companies. After graduating, I established I.R. Consilium, first as a UK company, and now as a US company, through which we provide advice and assistance on issues of international affairs, particularly at the intersection of law and security. In recent years, I was also: a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council where I led the largest study ever published on downstream oil theft and related hydrocarbons crime; an Adjunct Professor of Maritime Law and Security at the US Department of Defense's Africa Center for Strategic Studies; a Maritime Crime Expert for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Maritime Crime Programme; and a "Key Opinion Former on Maritime Security" at NATO. More recently, I became president of Auxilium Worldwide, a charitable organization that works around the world on projects and programs in furtherance of global harmony.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge MPhil International Relations; PhD Politics & International Studies 2011
College of William and Mary Juris Doctor (Law) 2005
University of Maryland (Baltimore County) BA Modern Languages & Linguistics; MA Intercutrual Communication 2002

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http://irconsilium.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianralby

My PhD research focuses on "future" city discourses in Indian urban renewal projects and the implications for urban citizenship and identity. My particular interest is people displaced by the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi -- through the lives of mobile migrant workers, I will explore notions of home, belonging, and future imaginaries.

My PhD research in Cambridge University will add value to the research that I have carried out during my MS at IIT Madras. This will enable me to understand and use technological innovation in various infrastructure projects specifically projects related to Structural Engineering. Such knowledge will undoubtedly help me and my country to realise the vision of making a developing country like India into a developed country. I gratefully acknowledge the support of the Gates Cambridge Trust.

At Cambridge I will study the molecular biology of the Trypanosoma brucei, the parasitic agent responsible for African sleeping sickness. My year at Cambridge will provide excellent training in infectious disease research, as well as have a profound influence on the path I ultimately embark on as a physician-scientist.

During my BSc in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, I developed a passion for Category Theory and Mathematics Education. The former presented to me a framework of insight into the mathematical questions I had encountered through my interest in the field, while the latter expressed a means for me to contribute to the upliftment of young, interested students in South Africa. In continuing to my MSc in Mathematics I explored these interests further and, in particular, studied internal categorical structures, while gaining teaching experience at the university. The opportunity to read a PhD at Cambridge supported by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship allows me to further explore my interests in Internal Category Theory, Categorical Logic and Internal Languages and to make meaningful contributions to these fields. I hope to engage with a cohort of educationally interested students to further my growth as a teacher. It is my intension to help grow the Category Theory – and general mathematical – community in my home county as well as help improve the state of mathematics education at its tertiary institutions.

Previous Education

University of Cape Town Mathematics 2022
University of Cape Town Mathematics 2020
University of Cape Town Maths and Applied Maths 2019

I am excited to do research in the fascinating field of Epigenetics in Maternal health and developmental biology. There can be a million reasons not to try something new....You just need one great reason to begin!

Links

https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/s-ranganathan/2998

As an undergraduate studying Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech, I became fascinated with medical imaging during internships and research focused on minimally invasive device design for radiology procedures. In my post-graduate work as a consultant, I sought to create impact through healthcare innovation but realized that subconscious bias in tactical solution design often excludes patients with the greatest need. We witnessed this during the COVID-19 crisis as those unable to access or afford care suffered disproportionately.While innovation is key to society’s well-being and progress, I believe we are also obligated to ensure that it reaches those who need it most. Through my PhD research in radiogenomics, an emerging field that combines medical imaging with genomic data, I seek to develop imaging biomarkers and predictive models for liver cancer. Ultimately, this research aims to improve access to care and reduce the resource burden on health professionals by creating tools that enhance diagnostics, enable remote assessment, and improve precision care for an under-funded yet deadly cancer. My research is supervised by Dr. Evis Sala in the Radiogenomics and Quantitative Imaging Group within the Department of Radiology.

Previous Education

Georgia Institute of Technology Biomedical Engineering 2018

I am a mathematics student attending Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. My main mathematical interests lie in algebraic geometry and number theory and I wrote a senior thesis on elliptic curves with complex multiplication. At Cambridge, I plan not only to continue my work in these areas, but also to take courses in a variety of other mathematical subjects to acquire a broader mathematical education before beginning graduate work.

Previous Education

University of Delhi BA Economics 2001

Steve is a postdoctoral researcher in Psychology at New York University in the Social Identity and Morality Lab. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Previously, he studied Psychology and Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Steve studies intergroup conflict, the spread of (mis)information, and how these topics interact with digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence.

He has published in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Nature Human Behavior, Science Advances, Psychological Science, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Annual Review of Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, PNAS Nexus, Nature Communications, Current Opinion in Psychology the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and more. His research has been covered by outlets such as the New York Times, BBC, NBC, CBS Sixty Minutes, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and the Freakonomics podcast.

He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, the AE Foundation, the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, Google, Cambridge, and NYU. He was recently named an APS “Rising Star,” and his thesis was awarded the Psychology of Technology Dissertation Fellowship and was a finalist for the SESP dissertation award.

Steve is also very interested in science communication, and has written articles for outlets such as the Washington Post, the Guardian, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, and Psychology Today. He also makes science communication TikToks under the name @stevepsychology, and has more than 1 million TikTok followers.

Steve is currently leading an international collaboration testing the causal impact of social media usage around the world. This is a collaboration with hundreds of researchers residing in 76 countries that has has received $1.5 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and NYU. You can learn more about this collaboration here: globalsocialmediastudy.com.

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Stanford University

Each moment of our waking lives is wrought through the medium of our conscious awareness. The enigma of how our brains create, capture, and shape our experiences fascinates me. In my cognitive neuroscience research at Stanford University, I studied how aging and early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology affect our memory abilities. Through these studies, I came to wonder whether or how these processes change our experiences of each moment. Consequently, my research at Cambridge seeks to better understand the neural underpinnings of consciousness as a function of age and AD. Through these inquiries, I hope my research will both shed light on the neural correlates of consciousness themselves and offer approaches for earlier detection of AD. Beyond doing research, I believe in and have worked toward sharing scientific information and discovery widely. I am deeply honored, humbled, and inspired to join the Gates Cambridge community of scholars.

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Stanford University Human Biology 2021

I spent most of my childhood in a small Kenyan town before being awarded the opportunity to pursue my tertiary education at Cambridge University, UK. I then joined Microsoft at the Redmond headquarters and my most recent success has been in the corporate citizenship arena amalgamating Microsoft research efforts with my technical standards work for developing countries. But even though, I have been exposed to great advances in science, I keenly believe that humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how these discoveries are applied to reduce the atrocious disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair. It is, consequently, my fervent hope that the Cambridge MBA will give me a cavernous multifaceted insight into business economics to design business models that can make market forces work better in applying the existing technologies to solve the world’s deepest inequities.