Participants and Results
Graduate students from all disciplines are encouraged to compete in the Queen's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition held each year. Our Postdoctoral Fellows, although not part of the competition, are being given a chance to see how they can explain their research in three minutes too. Participants have been posted in no particular order, highlighting their program and their research.
Want to see the presentations for yourself? Check them out last years here!
Finalists:
First place: Meghan VanBuuren (Master's in Biomedical Engineering)
Second place: Catherine Douglas (Master's in Mechanical & Materials Engineering)
Third place: Urbanus Wedaaba Azupogo (Master's in Geography)
Xu Wang 
Doctoral student in Computing
Presentation Title:
Meghan VanBuuren 
Master's in Biomedical Engineering (Collaborative)
Presentation Title: Enemy or Ally? Engineering the body's immune response to implanted medical devices
Amr Mostafa Ibrahim Omar 
Doctoral student in Translational Medicine
Presentation Title: Predicting the Next Seizure Before It Happens: Turning Uncertainty into Insight
Jerin Tasnim Farin 
Doctoral student in Mathematics & Statistics
Presentation Title: A song of Ice and Global Warning
Naiya Chhelavda 
Master's in Translational Medicine
Presentation Title: The Role of Macrophages in Right Ventricular Failure in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Urbanus Wedaaba Azupogo
Master's in Geography
Presentation Title: Deconstructing Gendered Risk Pathways for Schistosomiasis Infection in Lakeside Communities in Kisumu Kenya.
Catherine Douglas 
Master's in Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Presentation Title: Fuel Droplet-Assisted Detonations for Next Generation Clean Engines
Judges: Yunyi Chen (Centre for Teaching & Learning), Miguel Hahn (Career Services), Susan Korba (Student Academic Success Services)
Finalists:
First place: Robert Policelli (Doctoral student in Translational Medicine)
Second place: Meara Sanjayan (Master's in Translational Medicine)
Third place: Mateus Karvat Camara (Doctoral student in Computing)
Robert Policelli 
Doctoral student in Translational Medicine
Presentation Title: From Mass Spectra to Clinical Interpretability
Saba Hosseini Tabesh 
Doctoral student in Geography
Presentation Title: A Machine Learning Framework for Enhanced Surface Water Mapping through Integration of SWOT and Multisource EO Data
Curtis Shorts 
Doctoral student in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Presentation Title: How to Solve the World's Biggest Problems
Fateme Rezagholizade
Doctoral student in Chemical Engineering
Presentation Title: A Single Injection for Personalized, Long-Lasting Care for Chronic Eye Diseases
Meara Sanjayan 
Master's in Translational Medicine
Presentation Title: Optimizing Cervical Cancer Treatment for Women in Tanzania
Erin Griffiths 
Doctoral student in Chemistry
Presentation Title: Plastic Packaging: Friend or Foe
Rajesh Kumar 
Master's in
Presentation Title: Should AI Be Allowed to Bring the Dead Back?
Hannah Boyd 
Master's in Translational Medicine
Presentation Title: Redefining Women's Health Beyond the Bikini
Mateus Karvat Camara
Doctoral student in Computing
Presentation Title: Plastic Packaging: Increasing traffic safety through Collaborative Perception
John Turnbull 
Master's in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Presentation Title: Solving Natural Distribution Shifts using Test-Time Adaptation
Judges: Barb Lotan (Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Services, Human Rights and Equity Office), Susan Belyea (PhD, Director, Ban Righ Centre and Foundation), Deanna Galeano (Director, Yellow House Student Centre for Equity & Inclusion)
Prusha Balaratnam 
Master's in Translational Medicine
Presentation Title: Closing the Loop: The Brain and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Kazi Amit Hasan 
Doctoral student in Computing
Presentation Title: Efficient and Secure Pull-Request-Based Software Development
Claire Wei 
Doctoral student in Psychology
Presentation Title: From words to food - How culture shapes the way parents apologize
Bryant Han 
Master's in Biomedical & Molecular Sciences
Presentation Title: The daydreaming algorithm: AI and the science of 'what-if'
Brooke MacNeil 
Master's in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Presentation Title: Teaching Rehab Robots to Pay Attention
Mahta Fakhraei Rad 
Master's in Mining Engineering
Presentation Title: Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from a Canadian Ore
Obaida Al-Naib 
Master's in Kinesiology & Health Studies
Presentation Title: Memory and Movement: What goes into it?
Brooke Rutledge 
Master's in Translational Medicine
Presentation Title: Unlocking a New Target in Psoriatic Arthritis
Nastaran Kianersi 
Master's in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Presentation Title: From Data to Insight: Automated Behavioral Modeling of Smart Systems
Nasim Fadaie 
Doctoral student in Chemical Engineering
Presentation Title: Developing Sustainable Protein-based Aerogel/Hydrogel for Water Treatment Application
Judges: Catarina Chagas (Queen's Vice-Principal Research Portfolio), Yasmine Djerbal (Centre for Teaching and Learning), Nathalie Soini (Education Librarian, Education Library)