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March 20, 2026

Meet the Vancouver alum working on games like Call of Duty

Before joining game studio and Activision-Blizzard subsidiary Demonware as a software engineer, Northeastern Vancouver MS in Computer Science graduate Ria Agarwal had never played their AAA video game series Call of Duty. But shortly after starting her job in 2022...

January 27, 2026

Mentorship plays key role in Vancouver grad’s success

Artificial intelligence has many life-changing applications, including helping people with speech differences communicate more effectively. For Northeastern Vancouver grad Ian Yip (MSCS ’22), getting to play an early role in Happy Prime’s AllSpeak software platform provided an opportunity to make...

January 12, 2026

Vancouver faculty supports sustainability through wildfire management and AI efficiency

The power of machine learning and computer vision now play a key role in wildfire management, in part thanks to research from Ryan Rad, an assistant professor with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University in Vancouver. His...

December 15, 2025

Co-op Chronicles: Students Share Their Journeys in Industry

Vancouver has a tech scene that is growing quickly, with global cloud companies, fintech teams, research groups, and early-stage startups all working side by side. Northeastern’s campus is in downtown Vancouver, right in the middle of that environment, which gives...

October 30, 2025

Canada’s New Pathway for a Career Change to Tech

The race for tech talent in Canada is accelerating. CompTIA projects that the country’s tech employment will grow almost 1.8 times faster than the overall workforce over the next decade. A look at recent developments across the nation makes the...

June 24, 2025

Students at Northeastern University's Vancouver Campus Step Into Health Tech

Stepping into a hyperbaric chamber, inspecting surgical robots up close, and walking hospital hallways in scrubs are typically reserved for healthcare professionals and patients. But for twenty Northeastern Vancouver graduate students on a tour of Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) last...

March 7, 2025

Northeastern in Vancouver Student Workshop Promotes Gender Equity in STEM

Olivia Lam is a woman who loves research. She knows that isn’t unusual, but in an industry like STEM – where men make up two thirds of the workforce – it can certainly feel that way sometimes. When her Information...