Insight

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

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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

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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

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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