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Mikyung Park

BSc. Computer Science, UBC 2024

Mikyung is a 3rd year computer science student at UBC. She joined the Early Detection Research Group through the WorkLearn program and is excited to apply the knowledge she learns to the medical field. Outside of school, Mikyung loves swimming, drawing, and baking.

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Suki Cai

BSc Computer Science & Statistics, UBC 2024

Project:

  • Image Data Curation

Suki (Yufei) is a 4th-year student majoring in Computer Science combined Statistics. She has a great passion for making contributions to society and aspiring to benefit people from her work and research, continuously finding a way to build a better world for the disabled. She joined the Early Detection Research Group through the UBC work-learn program under the supervised of Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe. A fun fact about her is that she has long hair which is more than 1-meter long.

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Emily Mayzes

BSc Psychology (major) & Computer Science (minor), UBCO 2023

Projects:

  • Exception handling in Deep Learning application in breast cancer detection using mammography

I am going to be going into the last year of my undergraduate degree this upcoming year and will be graduating in April with my Bachelors in Science with a major in Psychology and minor in Computer Science. I have always been interested in working in the medical field, and after I graduate I hope to continue on to medical school. Currently, I am working on the project entitled ‘Exception handling in Deep Learning application in breast cancer detection using mammography’. In my spare time, I enjoy gardening, baking, and exploring the beautiful Okanagan on hikes and bike rides.

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Nitchakan Tara Obma

BSc. Microbiology, UBCO 2022

Projects:

  • NLP for automated extraction of canncer diagnosis from pathology reports

Nitchakan was born in Khon Kaen, Thailand. She came to Canada for secondary school and university. She joined the Early Detection Research Group in the summer of 2022 to work on the data analysis pipeline. She has always been interested in working and doing research in the medical-related field but never would have thought about working on the technological side of it. Nitchakan is excited to join the Early Detection Research Group. She is eager to learn about the construction of a data pipeline and contribute to something that could benefit others. Unfortunately, Nitchakan is not much of a winter person  and most of her hobbies revolve around the summer which includes anything from scuba diving, snorkeling, hiking, trekking to mountain biking.

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Johnson Chen

BSc. Computer Science & Statistics, UBC

Projects:

  • Image Data Curation

Johnson (Tingyu) is a 3rd-year UBC student studying Statistics and Computer Science. In May 2022, Johnson proudly joined the Image Curation group as a summer research student, and is assisting Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe and the team. Johnson is looking forward to facing the challenges ahead, one line of code at a time. Like many sweet-toothed people, Johnson spends his spare time in dessert places, gym, and then repeats.

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Liying Yang

BSc Computer Science, UBCO 2022

Projects:

  • Traceable medical image de-identification pipeline for AI applications
  • Validating Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Breast Cancer Detection
  • NLP for automated extraction of cancer diagnosis from pathology reports

Liying was born in China, Guangzhou, she came to Canada for high school and university as an international student. Liying joined the Early Detection Research Group in the spring of 2022 after she graduated as a computer science student. Her past research experience has been in children’s robotics; however, she had a strong interest in the medical field. She hopes she can take the advantage of technology and use them in the medical field.

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Pengkun Liang

MSc Statistics, University of Calgary 2021

Project:

  • Breast density AI prediction

Pengkun graduated from Ucalgary as a master student majoring in Statistics this summer and is currently working on the breast density AI prediction project. He is proficient in R/SAS programming and data analysis. He is also a huge fan of video games.

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Tien Do

Biology major & Data Science minor, UBCO

Projects:

  • Validation of AI models for identifying breast cancer in screening mammograms

Tien was born and raised in Vung Tau City, Vietnam. She came to Kelowna for an undergraduate degree at UBC Okanagan. She recently shows interests in Data Science, specifically in Data Analytics and Machine Learning with medical applications. She is excited to join Early Detection group this summer to work on the project validation of AI models for identifying breast cancer in screening mammograms as a recipient of SSRP. In her freetime, she enjoys hiking, rock climbing, baking, and painting.

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Olivia Ireland

BSc. Biochemistry, UBCO 2023

Projects:

  • Radiation Induced Cardiac Toxicities in Breast Cancer Survivors

Olivia grew up in Penticton, BC, and is currently a second-year undergraduate at UBC Okanagan studying Medical Biochemistry and Psychology. She is an incoming student this summer at BC Cancer in the UBC Faculty of Medicine Summer Student Research Program. Having a keen interest in women’s health and cancer epidemiology, Olivia is excited to work alongside Dr. Sarah Lucas and Dr. Rasika Rajapakshe on a project that will analyze a correlation between radiation treatment and subsequent coronary artery disease. Outside of school and research, she enjoys Irish dancing, creative arts, and enjoying the great outdoors.

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Ngan Phan

Bachelor of Science, UBCO

Projects:

  • Use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for automated electronic medical record review

Grown up in Vietnam, Ngan travelled to Canada to pursue undergraduate degree. She is going to third year at UBC Okanagan, majoring in Computer Science. She joins the Early Detection Group as a research intern and works on an NLP project to automate the medical record review, hence improves the time and accuracy of the process. In her free time, she would love to make some sweet treats, join hackathons and travel around Kelowna.