2024

April Pereira, PhD in Psychology

For the Winter of 2024, April Pereira will be travelling to the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign to collaborate with Dr. Wendy Rogers on a project that closely aligns with her research program at the University of Waterloo. April’s research focuses on cognitive aging and distributed memory across humans and external agents. She will be advancing their research skills and knowledge by studying how older adults distribute their memory with an external agent, more specifically, a domestic robot. Owing to Dr.

Amy Tai, MASc student in Systems Design Engineering

Amy will be travelling to Paris, France to expand her knowledge and skills in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for clinical data in the medical space and engage with researchers from diverse backgrounds. NLP has emerged as a powerful tool in the medical field, enabling the extraction of valuable insights from vast amounts of clinical data, and Amy is eager to deepen her knowledge and contribute to the evolving field and make a meaningful impact on patient care.