Topics: Graduate
Piyaruwan Perera, PhD '20, Civil Engineering
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Piyaruwan completed his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka. He then successfully completed a MSc in Civil Engineering at the same university. Later, he earned a MBA from the…
Muntahith Orvin, MASc '20, Civil Engineering
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I am a graduating student from the Civil Engineering program (transportation) at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. I started my journey at UBCO in January of 2019. Since my childhood, I have had a deep interest towards engineering…
Bryn Crawford, PhD '20, Mechanical Engineering
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I am a PhD candidate in the mechanical engineering program at UBC’s School of Engineering. I started my journey as an engineer when I first enrolled in my Bachelor’s of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Adelaide University in 2007, followed by…
Claire Preston, MASc '20, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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As a science fiction enthusiast, I have always been fascinated with stretching the possibilities of reality. This is perhaps what led me to study physics for my bachelor’s degree. During that time, I developed a keen interest in applying physics to…
Vasilii Triandafilidi, PhD ’20, Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Vasilii was a PhD candidate in the UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering (CHBE) program who graduated in May 2020. After a failed attempt to commercialize his research on smart polymers, he quickly pivoted and co-founded Innovation OnBoard (IOB…
Balpreet Kukreja, MEL '19, Clean Energy Engineering
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Balpreet’s background was in mechanical engineering before he fuelled his passion for clean technology by pursuing a master’s degree in clean energy engineering — part of UBC’s Master of Engineering Leadership (MEL) program. He worked with his peers…
Felipe Eltit, PhD '19, Biomedical Engineering
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I started my PhD journey after several years of dental clinical practice and teaching at the university level. In my practice, the major clinical problems that I faced involved the interaction of the human body with biomaterials. My clinical…
Ashraf Ahsan, MASc '19, School of Engineering
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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…
Kevin Dsouza, PhD '19, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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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…
Soojin Lee, PhD '19, Biomedical Engineering
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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…