Polina Shopina

Senior Engineering Physics Student, University of British Columbia

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Hi! I’m Polina, a senior Engineering Physics student at the University of British Columbia. My interests include robotics, aerospace engineering, physics, and machine learning. I’ve worked on a number of cool projects, which you can check out below. Currently, I’m developing an automated beer pong opponent for my final capstone project.

Experience

2024
UBC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Undergraduate Researcher in Machine Learning.

2023
Orbital Research Ltd.

Mechanical Engineer (Intern).

UBC Engineering Physics Department

Teaching Assistant for a course in machine learning and computer vision.

2022
TRIUMF

Research Assistant on the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment.

2021
UBC Applied Science Department

Teaching Assistant for an introductory computing course.

2020
UBC AeroDesign

Member of a student-led engineering design team building radio-controlled aircraft.

Projects and Internships

UBC AeroDesign Team Project Background UBC AeroDesign Team Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment Background TRIUMF Internship Treasure-Collecting Robot Competition Background Treasure-Collecting Robot Competition Virtual Autonomous Driving Robot Competition Background Virtual Autonomous Driving Robot Competition Orbital Research Internship Background Orbital Research Internship Autonomous Seed Interrogator Background Autonomous Seed Interrogator Neural Lossy Image Compression Research Background Neural Lossy Image Compression Research Automated Beer Pong Opponent Background Automated Beer Pong Opponent