Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Xin Maizie Zhou Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering (Primary) and Computer Science Steering Committee, Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) Executive Board, Center for Computational Systems Biology (CCSB) Core faculty member, Data Science Institute Member, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute Member, Vanderbilt Brain Institute Maizie completed her undergraduate study at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Wake Forest School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Her doctoral research at Stanford was supported by a fellowship by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Enlight Foundation. Maizie joined Vandy as an Assistant Professor in August 2020. She is the recipient of an outstanding investigator award (R35) from the National Institutes of Health.

Current Students

Graduate Students

Yichen (Henry) Liu (Spring 2021 - Present) Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science	Can Luo (Fall 2021 - Present) Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering	Yunfei Hu (Fall 2021 - Present) Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Weiman Yuan (Fall 2022 - Present) Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Engineering	Manfei Xie (2024 Spring – Present) Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Engineering	Yuqi Lei (Fall 2024 - Present) Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Zhenhan Lin (Fall 2024 - Present) Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Undergraduate Students

Haoran (Hunter) Qin (Summer 2023 - Present) Undergraduate Researcher in Computer Science & Economics	Jimmy Baek (Summer 2023 - Present) Undergraduate Researcher in Computer Science & Medicine, Health, and Society	Yujie Wang (Summer 2024 - Present) Undergraduate Researcher in Mathematics & Computer Science
Keyi Tang (Spring 2025 - Present) Undergraduate Researcher in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics	Melanie Fernandez (Spring 2025 - Present) Undergraduate Researcher in Computer Science	Miao (Serena) Deng (Spring 2025 - Present) Undergraduate Researcher in Computer Science & Medicine, Health, and Society
Louis Wu (Spring 2025 - Present) Undergraduate Researcher in Cellular and Molecular Biology	Gigi Liu (Spring 2025 - Present) Undergraduate Researcher in Computer Science & Cognitive Studies

High School Student Intern

Lily Wang (2024/01 – present) The Harpeth Hall School

Remote Student Intern

Yiru Chen (2024 Spring – present) Biomedical Informatics, Zhejiang University ’26

Summer Research Intern

• Supriyo Rana
  BME, BS, 2023 Summer

• Neal Bagai
  CS, BS, 2023 Summer

• Haoran (Hunter) Qin
  CS & Economics, BS, 2023 Summer

• Jihoon Jimmy Baek
  CS & Medicine, Health, and Society, BS, 2023 Summer

• Xinyu Gao
  Data Science, MS, 2022 Summer

• Muwen Zhan
  Data Science, MS, 2022 Summer

• Cameron Pirozzi
  BME & CS & Mathematics, BS, 2022 Summer

• Georgia Reed Cooper
  BME, BS, 2021 Summer (Clark Scholars Program)

Lab Alumni

Lab Assistants

• Sihan Ye
  Computer Science, BS, 2022 Fall – 2023 Fall

High School Students

• Lily Bowen
  The Harpeth Hall School (Honors STEM Research Course for girls), 2023/08 – 2024/05

Masters Students

• Yingxiang (Andy) Ma
  Data Science, MS, 2021 Fall – 2023 Spring
  First Job: Ph.D. student in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics @ Vanderbilt University

• Curtis Schunk (with Prof Cynthia Reinhart-King)
  BME, MS, 2022 Summer – 2022 Fall
  First Job: Analyst, Clinical & Strategic Analytics @ OneOncology

• Sanidhya Mangal
  CS, MS, 2021 Summer – 2022 Spring

• Yuanqi Xie
  CS, MS, 2020 Fall – 2021 Fall

• Yasi Wang
  Data Science, MS, 2021 Spring (Capstone project)
  First Job: Amazon

• Sijie Li (remote)
  Informatics, MS, 2020 Fall – 2021 Summer
  First Job: Ph.D. student in CS @ University of Sheffield

Undergraduate Students (>= 2 semesters)

• Sona Javadi
  CS, BS, 2023 Spring - 2024 Spring

• Zimeng (Jamie) Zhou
  CS & Mathematics, BS, 2022 Fall – 2024 Spring
  First Job: Goldman Sachs @ Dallas

• Adam Hollander
  CS & Mathematics, BS, 2022 Summer – 2023 Spring

• Jacob Ioffe
  CS & Public Policy, BS, 2020 Fall – 2022 Fall
  First Job: Master’s student in Health Tech @ Cornell Tech

• Zheng (Wayne) Wu
  CS & Mathematics, BS, 2022 Summer – 2023 Spring
  First Job: Master’s student in CS @ Rice University

• Rohit Khurana
  CS & Molecular & Cellular Biology & Mathematics, BS, 2022 Fall – 2023 Spring
  First Job: Master’s student in CS @ Stanford University

• Jia Yao (remote)
  CS, 2022 Summer – 2022 Fall
  First Job: Ph.D. student in BME Program @ UT Southwestern Medical Center

• Zi-Hang Wen (remote + in-person)
  BS in Engineering, 2020 Summer – 2022 Summer
  First Job: Ph.D. student in Computational Biology (CPCB) through Computer Science @ CMU

• Amy Sihn
  EE & Mathematics, BS, 2021 Fall – 2022 Spring
  First Job: Master’s student in EE @ UCLA

• Staunton “Hank” Golding
  BME, BS, 2021 Spring – 2022 Spring

• Parth A. Datar
  CS, BS+MS, 2021 Summer – 2022 Spring
  First Job: CAD SWE @ Qualcomm

• Jeremy L. Langsam
  BME, BS, 2020 Fall – 2021 Spring

• Griffin L. Grubbs
  BME, BS, 2020 Fall – 2021 Spring

• Ziqi Guo (remote)
  EPE, BS, 2020 Fall – 2021 Summer
  First Job: Ph.D. student in ME @ Purdue University