Spotlight type: Student

Jun 05, 2019 | Spotlight

I’m a graduating student from the Electrical Engineering program at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. I grew up in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, where I lived with my family. I have always been passionate about team…

Jun 05, 2019 | Spotlight

I joined UBC as a master’s student working on information theory and machine learning, and after successfully completing that degree, have continued towards a PhD at the intersection of machine learning and genomics. While a master’s student I…

May 28, 2019 | Spotlight

I am Dakelh from the Stellat’en First Nation in central British Columbia, and Acadian/Scottish on my mother’s side. My research contributes to the growing academic field of Indigenous Community Planning by looking at the planning and policy…

May 28, 2019 | Spotlight

I received my Master of Applied Science in Chemical and Biological Engineering from UBC in 2010 and worked for Samsung Engineering for about two years thereafter. Since 2014, I’ve been working towards completing my PhD in biomedical engineering; my…

May 27, 2019 | Spotlight

I got involved early and often when I joined UBC Engineering. I’m graduating from geological engineering and am the outgoing Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) President — two designations that I would have never considered ‘me’ before UBC. By…

May 27, 2019 | Spotlight

Terry Zhang hails from Shenyang, China, and lived in Niagara Falls, Ontario before moving to Nanaimo, and then Kelowna, to attend university at UBCO. As a civil engineering graduate, Terry has held various leadership roles in extracurricular groups…

May 23, 2019 | Spotlight

I grew up in Vancouver and as a kid, had a love for all things Lego. So naturally, I studied sociology and planned to become a lawyer. After realizing that law wasn’t right for me, I worked in marketing and sales in the property development industry…

May 23, 2019 | Spotlight

I recently graduated from UBC with an honours degree in environmental design. As a creatively-oriented person, I’ve always been interested in the fine arts and the process of expression through making; however I often struggled to find meaning in…

May 23, 2019 | Spotlight

I am originally from Bangladesh, but having spent a third of my life here, Vancouver is just as much a home to me as Dhaka. I have a very tight family, consisting of my parents and my little sister, who are the real reason for any success that I…

May 17, 2019 | Spotlight

I have always wanted to help solve important problems. After completing my degree in mechanical engineering, the most immediate problem I wanted to tackle was the stress I saw in my fellow students. I began to think about how valuable the meditation…