Miss Millie Zhou

Millie grew up in California where she completed her undergraduate studies from University of California, Davis with a double major in psychology and sociology. During this time, she worked as a clinical research assistant and helped conduct psychological assessments of at-risk children who experienced maltreatment. This foundation sparked a broad intellectual curiosity that expanded into the implications of data and technology on health. Millie later pursued a master’s degree in software engineering at Harvard University, where her research utilised computational genomics to elucidate the genetic basis of neuropsychiatric disorders. After securing industry funding, she went to the University of Oxford for a master’s degree in medical statistics, where her research explored the causal relationship between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and lung cancer using genetics and Mendelian randomisation. Millie is now working towards her PhD in biomedical data science at the Inouye Lab under the supervision of Mike Inouye and Angela Wood, funded by the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. Her research aims to leverage computational and statistical methods to elucidate the intricate relationships between genetics and diseases.