Resilience and research in motion
After rebuilding her academic path in Canada, graduate student Kseniia Buzko is advancing AI in sport with award-winning research.
By Angie Docking
Internal Communications Officer
When war disrupted her studies in Ukraine, Kseniia Buzko rebuilt her future in Canada, joining a special summer program for displaced students at the University of Toronto and later transferring to the University of Waterloo to complete her computer science degree. At Waterloo, she excelled academically, interned at Waterloo.AI, and led an international research project under Dr. Paul Fieguth, paving the way for graduate studies. Now a master’s student in the Vision and Image Processing Research Group, Buzko develops AI for action recognition in ice hockey. Her custom system, CP-Hockey, improves recognition accuracy by accounting for visual details standard models miss. Her work won Best Paper at the Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference. Beyond research, Buzko has built friendships and a strong sense of belonging at Waterloo.
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