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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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October 23, 2025
Accelerated co-ops power industry-ready solutions for employers
The eye-opening moment for computer science graduate student Sarah Liu was when she heard that the Chrome extension project she had worked on was going to market. “That was very, very exciting to hear,” Liu says. “It confirmed my interest...
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August 26, 2025
Yuma Takechi’s Career Remix: Unlocking New Paths with Co-op
Yuma Takechi has tried her hand at a number of different things over the years, from the music industry to education to tech. While what she’s interested in may have changed, the Double Husky has always trusted Northeastern’s co-op program...
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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...
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May 7, 2025
Transforming Healthcare Through Data: Vancouver's new Master of Science in Health Informatics
Healthcare and technology are two of the most exciting, rapidly-evolving job markets in the world. And in the fall of 2025, students will get a new opportunity to explore them together, as Northeastern University in Vancouver launches its Master of...
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April 15, 2025
From Marketing to Machine Learning: Claire Liu’s Journey into Tech
Panxin (Claire) Liu didn’t always want to be a computer scientist. Her bachelor’s degree is in media and advertising, and she was working in marketing in China when artificial intelligence first captured her curiosity. “When I was still doing marketing...
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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...
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