Our Team
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
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