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Scholar wins $5m award for maths non-profit
Gates Cambridge Scholar Ilana Walder-Biesanz is one of five recipients of a $5 million Bezos Courage & Civility Award for her work to encourage outstanding budding mathematicians to reach their […]
Building the Gates Cambridge community
“I cannot emphasise enough how much of a jazz performance it all was, how we were making it up as we went along,” says Rob Perrons, Class of 2001, about […]
How we met: The first Gates Cambridge couple
Professor Urbasi Sinha, winner of the Gates Cambridge Impact Prize, is a quantum scientist. She married fellow Gates Cambridge Scholar Aninda while he was in the inaugural year of the […]
How we met: Ramit Debnath and Kamiar Mohaddes
What do an economist and an environmental sustainability researcher have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out. Kamiar Mohaddes [2005] is an economist, who has been working on climate […]
Security and risk in the 21st century
What are the major security risks in the 21st century and how should we deal with them? Pranav Ganta is part of the 25th anniversary cohort and will be studying […]
The benefits of bilingualism
Professor Napoleon Katsos is from the first cohort of Gates Cambridge Scholars. Minhee Lee is from the 2025 cohort. Napoleon will be Minhee’s supervisor as she explores the multi-layered meanings […]
‘Personality test’ shows how AI chatbots mimic human traits – and how they can be manipulated
Researchers, including first co-author by Gregory Serapio-García [2019], have developed the first scientifically validated ‘personality test’ framework for popular AI chatbots, and have shown that chatbots not only mimic human […]
Can we use AI to colour outside the lines?
Eryk Salvaggio [2025] and Tristan Dot [2022] are both interested in the questions thrown up by AI art, but they come at it from different perspectives. Before Cambridge, Tristan studied […]
A Gates Cambridge extended family
Mateja Peter, Gillean Denny, Liz Dzeng, Maria Pawlowska, Jakub Szamalek, Greg Jordan, Albert Chiou, Eva-Maria Hempe, Jochen Brandt and Sri Raj have known each other for nearly two decades. They’ve […]
For the love of art
When Bill Gates Sr discussed the grant that would establish the Gates Cambridge Trust 25 years ago it was always with the widest possible lens on how scholarship can make […]
