Resilience and research in motion
After rebuilding her academic path in Canada, graduate student Kseniia Buzko is advancing AI in sport with award-winning research.
µþ²âÌýAngie Docking
Internal Communications Officer
When war disrupted her studies in Ukraine, Kseniia Buzko rebuilt her future in Canada, joining a special summer program for displaced students at the University of Toronto and later transferring to the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ to complete her computer science degree. At À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, she excelled academically, interned at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.AI, and led an international research project under Dr. Paul Fieguth, paving the way for graduate studies. Now a master’s student in the Vision and Image Processing Research Group, Buzko develops AI for action recognition in ice hockey. Her custom system, CP-Hockey, improves recognition accuracy by accounting for visual details standard models miss. Her work won Best Paper at the Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference. Beyond research, Buzko has built friendships and a strong sense of belonging at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.
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