Age: 19
Divakar Gaba is a problem solver by nature. In 2025, at the University of Calgary’s HERO lab for human health and improvement through AI innovation, Gaba helped develop an app that detects early signs of dehydration using biometric data like heart rate, skin temperature and sweat levels.
Gaba and some of his peers won first place at the 2025 National Inter-University Health Data and AI Inquiry Program with an AI-powered platform that determines how various factors, such as air quality, can impact health outcomes.
“If you bring AI into perspective and into the equation, then I believe [health care] can be better enhanced,” he says.
Beyond health care, Gaba applies AI problem solving for legal support and for student transportation.
