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The summer that brought him back
David Carciente tested the fit of a lab before choosing graduate school.
The context
Where the work begins
David Carciente joined Waterloo’s first Rising Stars Fellowship cohort in 2024 while studying software engineering at Concordia. In the Vision and Image Processing Lab, he helped make computer vision tools more accessible to marine researchers.
The takeaway
What follows
He returned for a master’s in Systems Design Engineering after getting to know the supervisors and research environment. His current work pairs satellite imagery with sea ice charts. The fellowship offered something a prospectus cannot: time to discover what working in a particular lab feels like.
Source reporting
The summer that brought him back
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