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Aneisa Babkir
- Alumni, Scholar-elect
- United States
- 2024 MPhil Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies
2025 PhD Politics and International Studies - St John's College
Aneisa Babkir
- Alumni, Scholar-elect
- United States
- 2024 MPhil Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies
2025 PhD Politics and International Studies - St John's College
Growing up between my American and Sudanese communities ignited my passion for working in international development. I am particularly committed to socio-economic peacebuilding initiatives in Sudan and to shaping post-conflict reintegration pathways for displaced populations globally. Through my previous undergraduate and MPhil research at Cambridge, Oxford, and American University, I investigated women’s experiences of displacement and structural violence in situations of post-conflict rebuilding. With my PhD research I aim to explore the material, affective, and embodied dimensions of displacement as an enduring socio-political condition in order to reimagine our political and economic approaches to displacement. My hands-on experience in international development spans a variety of projects, including addressing housing insecurity and children’s rights in South America, implementing capacity-building programs for youth in Morocco and Palestine, and working with refugee and educational equity organizations in the US and UK.
I am honored to be awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship for a second time and look forward to continuing my work with this change-making community throughout my PhD journey.
Previous Education
University of Cambridge
American University Washington
University of Oxford
Yilin Tang
- Scholar-elect
- China
- 2025 PhD Computer Science
- Churchill College
Yilin Tang
- Scholar-elect
- China
- 2025 PhD Computer Science
- Churchill College
I am always passionate about volunteer work. Having spent thousands of hours engaged with vulnerable groups, I witnessed their challenges and was deeply moved by how they faced the injustices of fate with such resilience. Thus, when I was doing my master's in Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University with a focus on human-centered computing, I decided to use my knowledge to conduct research that could harness the power of AI to improve the lives of people with disabilities. For example, I used large language models to provide personalized emotional training for children with autism and used large vision language models to offer contextual online social assistance for blind and low-vision people. By collaborating with international scholars, tech companies, and disability associations, I successfully transformed my research into practical AI-assisted systems that have benefited the disabled community in China. Of course, while using AI to assist people with disabilities, I have observed some ethical challenges posed by AI. Therefore, in my PhD studies, I plan to focus on constructing responsible AI systems for supporting disabled communities, to ensure that AI serves the disabled community in a responsible manner.
Previous Education
Beihang University Industrial Deisgn
Zhejiang University Mechanical Engineering
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