Xiaoyue (Judy) Li

• Hometown: Carbondale, IL (the “Solar Eclipse Crossroads of America”)
• Major: Biomedical Engineering
• Career goals: Graduate school applicant
• Research: optical coherence tomography (OCT) with zebrafish retinas (Dr. Yuankai Kenny Tao, Vanderbilt)
• Professional Interests: Scientific computing, image processing, optics
• Hobbies: watching videos about tiny houses, babysitting, eating Asian bread

Nur Khairah Bahirah Safian

• Hometown: Terengganu, Malaysia (we have pretty beaches)
• Major: Biomedical Engineering
• Minor: Physics
• Career goal: Attend graduate school (Masters), medical imaging technology
• Professional Interests: Image processing, health physics
• Hobbies: Reading novels, taking walks, cooking, Malay classics

Anna Word

• Hometown: Fairhope, Alabama (founders said we had a “fair hope” of succeeding)
• Major: Biomedical Engineering
• Career goals: attend graduate school (PhD candidate), conduct biomedical research post-graduation
• Research: development of an improved method of single-cell epigenome analysis (Tosato Lab, National Cancer Institute) and characterization of a new metabolic pathway regulating epigenetic alterations in pancreatic cancer metastases (McDonald Lab, VUMC)
• Professional Interests: epigenomics, cell metabolism, cancer biology
• Hobbies: dancing with the Vanderbilt Philippine Dance Theater, civic engagement, cooking, windowsill herb gardens, petting dogs

Sophie Xie

• Hometown: Kenmore, Washington (not Kenmore washers)
• Major: Biomedical Engineering
• Career goals: Medical school
• Research: Investigation of the effects of collagen matrix density on endothelial cell metabolism and angiogenic dynamics (Dr. Cynthia Reinhart-King’s lab, Vanderbilt University).
• Professional Interests: angiogenesis, cell metabolism, cell mechanics, cancer research
• Hobbies: Trying new foods, ice skating, wishing she had a cat, watching short history documentaries