BSc. Computer Science, UBC 2024
Mikyung is a 3rd year computer science student at UBC. She joined the Early Detection Research Group through the WorkLearn program and is excited to apply the knowledge she learns to the medical field. Outside of school, Mikyung loves swimming, drawing, and baking.
BSc Computer Science & Statistics, UBC 2024
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Suki (Yufei) is a 4th-year student majoring in Computer Science combined Statistics. She has a great passion for making contributions to society and aspiring to benefit people from her work and research, continuously finding a way to build a better world for the disabled. She joined the Early Detection Research Group through the UBC work-learn program under the supervised of Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe. A fun fact about her is that she has long hair which is more than 1-meter long.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Natural Sciences Program, University of Calgary
Biostatistician
Dr. Hua Shen is an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Calgary. Her research interests are on the methodology development and statistical analysis of data arising from public health and medical research. They include the analysis of survival data, recurrent events data, longitudinal data, incomplete data and other complex data involving multiple outcomes, misclassification/measurement error, hierarchical structures and high dimension. She is strongly interested in collaborative research to support investigations in cancer and other chronic diseases.
BSc Psychology (major) & Computer Science (minor), UBCO 2023
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I am going to be going into the last year of my undergraduate degree this upcoming year and will be graduating in April with my Bachelors in Science with a major in Psychology and minor in Computer Science. I have always been interested in working in the medical field, and after I graduate I hope to continue on to medical school. Currently, I am working on the project entitled ‘Exception handling in Deep Learning application in breast cancer detection using mammography’. In my spare time, I enjoy gardening, baking, and exploring the beautiful Okanagan on hikes and bike rides.
BSc. Statistics, UBC 2022
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I’m a statistics major student who graduated from UBC this year. I joined the Early Detection Research Group this summer through the work-learn program. I always want to apply what I learned in school to industry fields. I always keep curiosity about learning new things in data science and the machine learning field.
BSc. Microbiology, UBCO 2022
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Nitchakan was born in Khon Kaen, Thailand. She came to Canada for secondary school and university. She joined the Early Detection Research Group in the summer of 2022 to work on the data analysis pipeline. She has always been interested in working and doing research in the medical-related field but never would have thought about working on the technological side of it. Nitchakan is excited to join the Early Detection Research Group. She is eager to learn about the construction of a data pipeline and contribute to something that could benefit others. Unfortunately, Nitchakan is not much of a winter person and most of her hobbies revolve around the summer which includes anything from scuba diving, snorkeling, hiking, trekking to mountain biking.
BSc. Computer Science & Statistics, UBC
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Johnson (Tingyu) is a 3rd-year UBC student studying Statistics and Computer Science. In May 2022, Johnson proudly joined the Image Curation group as a summer research student, and is assisting Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe and the team. Johnson is looking forward to facing the challenges ahead, one line of code at a time. Like many sweet-toothed people, Johnson spends his spare time in dessert places, gym, and then repeats.
BSc. Information Technology, University of Mumbai 2021. MSc. Computer Science, UBC,2023.
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Isha comes from Mumbai, India. She received her bachelor degree in Information Technology at University of Mumbai, 2021. She is an incoming student this summer UBCO in MSc. Computer Science. Having a keen interest in women’s health and Artificial Intelligence, she is excited to work at BC Cancer. Outside of school, she enjoys baking, creative arts, reading and spending time by the beach.
BSc Computer Science, UBCO 2022
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Liying was born in China, Guangzhou, she came to Canada for high school and university as an international student. Liying joined the Early Detection Research Group in the spring of 2022 after she graduated as a computer science student. Her past research experience has been in children’s robotics; however, she had a strong interest in the medical field. She hopes she can take the advantage of technology and use them in the medical field.
MSc Statistics, University of Calgary 2021
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Pengkun graduated from Ucalgary as a master student majoring in Statistics this summer and is currently working on the breast density AI prediction project. He is proficient in R/SAS programming and data analysis. He is also a huge fan of video games.