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Xianghao Zhan
Postdoc Res Affiliate, Med/BMIR
BioXianghao Zhan earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Stanford University in 2024, with a minor in Biomedical Data Science. He also completed dual M.S. degrees in Bioengineering (2021) and Statistics (2023) at Stanford, and holds undergraduate degrees in Control Science and Engineering and in English Literature from Zhejiang University’s Chu Kochen Honors College, where he graduated summa cum laude in 2019.
His research centers on understanding and modeling brain injury and neurodegeneration through data-driven approaches grounded in biomechanics, medical imaging, and clinical evidence. Under the mentorship of Prof. David B. Camarillo and Prof. Olivier Gevaert, his doctoral work advanced the computational modeling of traumatic brain injury, including the development of more accurate brain strain estimators, interpretable kinematic-to-strain models, and the first large-animal biomechanics-to-pathology correlation study.
Beyond traumatic brain injury, his research portfolio spans clinical data analysis for neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, pathology-informed modeling of blood-brain barrier disruption, survival prediction using patient-derived motor neurons, and imaging-informed diagnosis in cancer. He has also contributed to clinical text mining and sensor-based health monitoring in contexts such as COVID-19 prognosis, surface electromyography, and artificial olfaction.
Xianghao has published 22 peer-reviewed papers as first or co-first author in journals including NPJ Digital Medicine, IEEE JBHI, and IEEE T-BME, with four additional first-author submissions under review. He has served as a reviewer for over 10 scientific journals, including Annals of Biomedical Engineering and Journal of Neurotrauma, and presented his work in 14 international conferences. He has co-written five research grants, contributing to over $400,000 in funding for brain injury studies.
His contributions have been recognized with several competitive honors, including the Siebel Scholars Class of 2024, the IET William James Award, the IET Postgraduate Research Award, the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, and trainee awards from AMIA and the American Society for Neurotrauma.
Outside of research, he is an avid volleyball and tennis player, having led teams to 16 intramural championships at Stanford. He values collaboration, leadership, and the joy of teamwork—on and off the court. -
An Ni Zhang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Cancer Institute
BioAnni obtained her Ph.D. in Dr. James Johnson and Dr. Janel Kopp's labs at the University of British Columbia. Her Ph.D. work showed that hyperinsulinemia contributes to pancreatic cancer development. Her work also showed that insulin directly acted via the insulin receptors in pancreatic acinar cells to increase digestive enzyme production, thereby generating an inflammatory condition that accelerates neoplastic transformation. She is now working at Diehn lab to investigate the mechanisms of KEAP1 mutation-induced immunotherapy resistance in lung cancer.
