Current 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
Stevenson Complex 5919; maizie.zhou@vanderbilt.edu
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.
Ph.D. Students
Yichen (Henry) Liu
B.S, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Computer Science (2021 Spring – present)
yichen.liu.1@vanderbilt.edu, Stevenson Complex 5917
Can Luo
(Vanderbilt Graduate Fellowship)
B.S, Fudan University, M.S, Vanderbilt University
Biomedical Engineering (2021 Fall – present)
can.luo@vanderbilt.edu, Stevenson Complex 5917
Yunfei (Oliver) Hu
B.S, M.S, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Computer Science (2021 Fall – present)
yunfei.hu@vanderbilt.edu, Stevenson Complex 5917
Weiman Yuan
(Russell G. Hamilton Scholar, Vanderbilt Dean’s Graduate Fellowship)
B.S, Nankai University, M.A, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Biomedical Engineering (2022 Fall – present)
weiman.yuan@vanderbilt.edu, Stevenson Complex 5917
Manfei (Bella) Xie
B.S, Shantou University, M.S, The University of Alabama
Biomedical Engineering (2024 Spring – present)
manfei.xie@vanderbilt.edu, Stevenson Complex 5907
Yuqi Lei
B.S, Jilin University, M.S, Brown University
Computer Science (incoming 2024 Fall )
yuqi.lei@vanderbilt.edu, Stevenson Complex 5907
Zhenhan Lin
B.S, Hangzhou Dianzi University, M.S, University of Florida
Computer Science (incoming 2024 Fall )
zhenhan.lin@vanderbilt.edu, Stevenson Complex 5907
Undergrad Students
Haoran (Hunter) Qin
Computer Science & Economics
(2023 Summer – present)
Jimmy Baek
Computer Science & Medicine, Health, and Society
(2023 Summer – present)
Yujie Wang
Mathematics & Computer Science
(2024 Summer – present)
Keyi Tang
Computer Science & Applied Mathematics
(2025 Spring – present)
Melanie Fernandez
Computer Science
(2025 Spring – present)
High School Student Intern
Lily Wang
The Harpeth Hall School
(2024/01 – present)
Remote Student Intern
Yiru Chen
Biomedical Informatics, Zhejiang University ’26
(2024 Spring – present)