Chunni (Zoe) Ji
Chunni (Zoe) is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. She earned her B.S. in Psychology and Biology from UNC-Chapel Hill and her M.S. in Biostatistics from Northwestern University. Previously, she worked as a statistician in the Braun Lab at Northwestern, where she studied circadian rhythm using transcriptomic and wearable device data. She later joined Massachusetts General Hospital as a statistician and clinical research coordinator, collecting and analyzing MRI, proteomic, and clinical data from patients with eating disorders. Her research interests focus on integrating omics and brain data to advance precision health in psychiatry, with the goal of identifying early risk factors, biomarkers, and effective treatments for patients.