PhD candidate Mike Schaekermann is one of 39 recipients globally and the only candidate from Canada to receive a prestigious 2018 Google PhD Fellowship. Established in 2009 and awarded annually since, Google PhD Fellowships recognize and support exceptional doctoral students as they pursue their research, as well as connect them to a Google Research Mentor.
Supervised jointly by Professors Edith Law and Kate Larson in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Mike conducts research at the intersection between machine learning and human-computer interaction. He examines ways to combine the power of human and machine intelligence to solve problems too difficult to be tackled by computational methods alone — such as the analysis of medical time series data — by working in a hybrid and emerging research space known as human-centred machine learning. Read the full story.