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范德堡大学(Vanderbilt University)，简称 Vandy，私立研究型大学，属于新常春藤盟校。 由美国铁路大亨科尼利尔斯·范德比尔特捐建，位于美国田纳西州纳什维尔市。2021 年 U.S.News 综合大学排名第 14 名，并孕育了 7 名诺贝尔奖获得者、2 名美国副总统、25 位罗德学者。作为一所精英学府，享有南方“第一贵族名门”的盛誉。2018 年全美幸福 度最高大学第 1 名。作为美国乡村音乐的发源地，纳什维尔孕育和培养了包括猫王(Elvis Presley)和霉霉(Taylor Swift)在内的无数音乐人。地处音乐之都，学校里也经常有音乐 会。 

Xin (Maizie) Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Data Science Institute (core faculty), and Computer Science (secondary appointment) at Vanderbilt University. She completed her undergraduate study at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, and holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Wake Forest School of Medicine, and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Her main research interests are computational genomics, bioinformatics, computational neuroscience, and machine learning. Her team works on a wide range of data science problems, including designing new probabilistic models in high throughput sequencing data with applications to human genomics and metagenomics, data mining of large cohort studies in neurological diseases, and understanding dynamical behavior and function of neural circuits.

实验室招收 2022 Fall BME PhD, CS PhD, Data Science Master, Visiting Students/Scholars, 欢迎 暑研项目~

欢迎数学， 统计，计算机，生物信息/工程相关专业的学生申请， 有较强数学计算背景和 编程背景，对实验室方向感兴趣的同学也欢迎申请。

Lab website: 

https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/maizie-zhou-lab/ 

邮件联系:

maizie.zhou@vanderbilt.edu (Apply for Vandy)