The 2023-2024 Ambassadors Team—comprised of six students—crafted various blog posts and provided the student perspective for the department at events like Fall Campus Day and Program Exploration Day. Each ambassador also pursued individual projects.

  • Helen and Rue supported career-related events, such as hosting weekly mock technical interviews and regularly updating the department’s job board with internship and new grad opportunities. While Rue initiated the career resources guide as her personal project, Helen created and managed the coffee chat mentoring program.
  • Kurtis and Sarah supported outreach events via student volunteers recruitment and training. Kurtis also took professional headshots for many students on a booking basis, and Sarah built a guide to help students get started with machine learning.
  • Adel and Ali supported community events. In particular, Ali cumulated a list of events and opportunities that would be beneficial for the computer science community, and this list became a part of the department’s weekly emails to students. Adel created a guide for entrepreneurship-focused resources on campus and interviewed a professor on his book launch.

Read more about each ambassador below!

23-24 Team From left to right, in the top row are Ali, Adel, and Sarah, while in the bottom row are Kurtis, Rue, and Helen.

  • Adel Muursepp (she/her) is a third-year Computer Science & Mathematics student with Minor in Statistics and Business Certificate from Rotman with a passion for technology, AI, finance. She has previously interned at Promise Robotics and Scotiabank, as well as a venture capital firm. She is passionate about attending hackathons and building projects. Open to chat about attending hackathons, entrepreneurship-related competitions, Leetcode, courses and learning new technologies outside of courses.

  • Ali Syed (he/him) is just a CS student who’s enjoying life :)

  • Helen Li (she/her) is in her third year studying Computer Science and Statistics. She is passionate about leveraging technology as a force for social good and impact. She has explored the world of technology and innovation at Microsoft, AI4Good Lab, Computational Health and Interaction Lab, Citadel, Jane Street, and more. She spends most of her free time on restaurant and cafe hopping, art galleries and museums, and traveling!

  • In his third year as a CS specialist, Kurtis Law (he/him) enjoys problem solving and finding intersects between software and the creative arts. Outside the digital realm, he spends his time playing the guitar and snapping photos with his camera. He is apparently always down to jam with fellow musicians or explore new photo-worthy adventures.

  • Sarah Walker (she/her) is a third-year pursuing a computer science specialist with focuses in AI and computer vision. She has been exploring different streams of research, such as in computational linguistics, AI in healthcare, and neuro-symbolic systems. She’s also happy to talk about her experience in two different UofT Hatchery startups, attending hackathons, and participating in clubs such as EWB and UTMIST. In her spare time, she enjoys growing plants and writing!

  • Ruhika (Rue) Sriharsha (she/her) is a 4th year, majoring in Computational Cognitive Science with triple minors in Computer Science, Statistics and Business. Throughout her undergrad, Rue has interned at six companies: 3 Canadian startups, Microsoft, Amazon and with a research professor at UofT. She is also the VP of Sponsorship for UofTHacks. Rue is also an avid hackathon attendee. She has demoed at over 30 hackathons, winning 5 of them, and now mentors at these events.