Sana Hashim

Research and Professional Interests

My research interests include sustainability, climate change, geoAI, and remote sensing. Outside of academia, I enjoy sports (F1, tennis, and soccer) and traveling.

Honours and Awards

UofT Awards: 

• Center for Urban Environments Award (2025)
• Outstanding Academic Performance in Program Award – Institute of Management and Innovation (2025)
• Founder Gold Nominee – Institute of Management and Innovation (2025) 
• Janet Campbell-Booth Scholarship (2025) 
• Frenc (Ferko) Csillag Memorial Award (2024, 2025) 
• Center for Global Change Science Award (2024) 
• Best Undergraduate Thesis (2024)
• Hosinec Family Scholarships (2024)
• University of Toronto Excellence Award (2023)
• UofT International Scholar (2021, 2022)
• Radicalized Community Involvement (2021)
• UofT Entrance Award (2021)

External Awards:

• Esri Canada Center of Excellence (ECCE) Student of the Year (2022, 2023, 2024, 2026)
• Venture for Alibaba, Winner – National University of Singapore (2024) 
• RBC Scholarship for Diversity and Innovation in Technology (2022, 2023)
• Scholar at Risk (2022)
• Expo2020 Young Innovator – United Arab Emirates (2020)

Presentations

• Hashim, S., Siu, R., & He, Y. (2024). Monitoring vegetation greenness and species diversity in a post-rehabilitated ecosystem using UAVs. GISciences for Sustainability, 31st International Conference on Geoinformatics, Toronto, Canada.
• Hashim, S., He, Y., & Gillespie, A. (2022). A spatial literature review of human impact on Betula utilis and Betula papyrifera. Birchbark: An International Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Publications

• Hashim, S. (forthcoming). The pen versus me. In T. Evans-Tokaryk (Ed.), First-year composition in Canada: Faculty and student perspectives on “writing about writing”. Parlor Press.
• Hashim, S. He, Y. (2024). Monitoring vegetation status in rehabilitated legacy pits. [Undergraduate thesis, University of Toronto]
• He, Y., Duval, T. P., Solondz, D. M., Nelson, D., Noonan, M., & Hashim, S. (2023). Rapid assessment of legacy pit restoration success: A pilot project report to TOARC. [Report]
• Hashim, S. (2021). The genre and critical role of press statements in WILPF-Afghanistan. In T. Evans-Tokaryk (Ed.), Writing for University and Beyond: A Journal of First-Year Student Writing at UTM, 1(1), 61–71.

Social and News

• LinkedIn 
• Research Fellow at Old Books New Science Lab 
• Business Minor Spotlight: Sana Hashim (Institute for Management & Innovation IMI, UofT) 
• 'A story of great resilience': After fleeing Taliban, stranded U of T Mississauga student turns to profs for help (UofT News) 
• U of T student who fled Taliban recounts effort to rescue her parents (CBC’s Metro Morning, UofT News) 
• Clear a path through red tape for student refugees (Toronto Star)