Undergraduate Student Researcher - Simulating How Animals Learn
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
By earning an Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA), I have had the opportunity to work on a computationally intense, statistical research project, titled "Simulating how animals learn: A new modelling framework applied to optimal foraging." I worked under the supervision of Dr. Mark Lewis (professor), and Dr. Peter Thompson (postdoctoral fellow). I mainly used Julia and R to simulate how animal foraging behaviour changes, depending on the environment that the animal is exposed to. I used LaTeX to write summaries of my work and used slideshows to present my results on multiple occasions to the lab group.