Ana Pop is a senior at the University of British Columbia majoring in Computer Engineering.

Her research has been on the computational prediction of the structure of bio-molecules based on physical models rather than on comparative techniques. She implemented a dynamic programming algorithm for RNA secondary structure prediction. In completely separate work she has done research on the 'nonbacktracking spectrum' of graphs. The work has led to interesting results, which have been submitted as a short paper to Experimental Mathematics.

Ana completed high school in only two years, and has continued rapid advancement by immersing herself in graduate-level research since early in her college career. At UBC, she has received hard-to-get scholarships from both General Motors and IBM.

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