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Post-Bachelor Year

McMaster University

• Advanced stats courses to prepare for grad school

B.Arts Sc. (Hons.)

McMaster University

Arts and Science, & Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour

• Laura Dodson Prize, top graduating award in program
• Math minor
• Honours Thesis: Bayesian Modelling of a Haptic Categorization Task, and Temporal Video Segmentation

Faculty of Arts & Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship

Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto

For “recruitment of the very best domestic students to PhD programs.”

Doctoral Recruitment Award

Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto

Industry Disruptor Award

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Amplify Program

$5,000 prize awarded by chief executives after Shark Tank-style pitch

Laura Dodson Prize

McMaster University, Faculty of Arts and Science

Top graduation award in program (awarded to 2 students in cohort)

Barbara Francis Scholarship

McMaster University, Faculty of Arts and Science

Top academic award in program (awarded to one student/year)

Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)

McMaster University, Faculty of Arts and Science

Funding for summer 2022 research through competitive application

McMaster President’s Award

McMaster University

Entrance scholarship for 95%+ high school GPA

Software Developer

RBC Amplify

Amplify is RBC's flagship technology and innovation early talent program, and accepts less than 1% of applicants.

• Built patent-pending multimodal machine learning product
• Awarded “Industry Disruptor Award” by chief executives in competition with 18 teams
• Product projected to save $2M+ in first year of production
• Presented to auditorium with 400+ atendees

Research Assistant II

McMaster University

Supervisor: Prof. Pratheepa Jegenathan

• Bayesian spatial clustering
• Applications to spatial omics and tumour identification

Research Collaborator

University of Toronto

Supervisors: Prof. Patrick Brown & Prof. Jamie Stafford

• Efficient computation for Bayesian hierarchical models; faster than MCMC, more flexible than INLA
• Applications in spatial statistics (multi-resolution disaggregation regression)

Undergraduate Researcher (Computational Neuroscience & Computer Vision)

McMaster University

Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Goldreich

• Bayesian modelling of human sensory perception and learning
• Novel computer vision methodology to automate 250+ hours of video labelling

Undergraduate Researcher (Bioethics)

McMaster University

Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Coren

• Independent research project funded by USRA
• “Can people with dementia be morally responsible for the offensive things they say?”