Kaur Aare

Kaur Aare graduated from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 2017 with an MEng specialising in Information Engineering. His final project, at the boundary of robotics and machine learning, developed a machine-learning-based optimisation algorithm to improve robot performance. He went on to a DPhil in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems at the University of Oxford.

At high school in Estonia, Kaur Aare won medals and prizes at the International Mathematical Olympiad and International Physics Olympiad as part of the national teams. He then joined Estonia’s national physics and mathematics olympiad committees, training high school students for international olympiads through lectures and small-group sessions and keeping highly able students stretched.

Kaur Aare’s sessions are interactive and he encourages students to ask questions. Rather than giving answers, he guides their thinking so they reach the solution themselves, which builds deeper understanding and the satisfaction of solving problems independently. He also teaches strategies that make difficult problems manageable, and adapts his approach to each student.