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Mahum Khawaja

McMaster University
Whitby, Ontario
2022 Dobson Loran Scholar
Donald A Wilson Secondary School

Mahum is the co-founder of Agora, a student organization hosting co-working sessions for creators and makers. She also volunteers at a robotics lab and helps first-year students as a resident advisor. One of her Loran summers was at the Rehab Robotics Lab in Edmonton, where she and her team developed a diagnostic tool for shoulder cuff tears to be used in rural communities. She spent another Loran summer as a clinical research assistant at Toronto General Hospital, where she worked on organ transplantation research. She is a biomedical and electrical engineering student at McMaster University and enjoys competing in hackathons and engineering competitions over the weekends.