The following students have served as RCS Student Ambassadors in the past.
Michael Silverstein – Michael is a PhD student in the Bioinformatics program and he is interested in the role that soil microbial interactions play in regulating climate change. His favorite programming language is Python and he is always (maybe a little too) excited to talk about his contributions to the Python package, pandas. He got his start in studying microbial communities while working at Finch Therapeutics where he helped to design a microbial consortia for the treatment of Ulcerative Colitis using gut microbiome derived strains. While his hands and mind aren’t in the dirt he enjoys rock climbing, cooking, reading, biking, playing music, gardening, and camping (so, some dirt still included…). He is co-advised by Daniel Segrè and Jennifer Bhatnagar.
Liqun Zhuge – Liqun is currently a fourth-year PhD student in the Economics Department. He is an applied microeconomist with interests in labor and development economics. He has full experience in structural estimation in economics with clusters and is knowledgeable about programming languages such as R, Stata, SAS, Matlab, etc.
Hanfei Xu – Hanfei is currently a 4th year PhD student in the Biostatistics Department. My research interest include statistical genetics, causal inference and meta-analysis. In her free time, Hanfei likse to watch movies and explore the city.