Chloe Cheng

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PhD student

Thesis Title: Mapping the Emergence of Synapses in the Brain

Primary theme: Artificial Intelligence and Informatics

University: University of Edinburgh

University supervisors: Dr David Clarke and Prof Juan Burrone

Franklin supervisors: Dr Mark Basham and Dr Michele Darrow

Chloe (Zhiyuan) Cheng is a PhD student at the Franklin. She obtained a BEng and MS in nuclear engineering from Fudan University (2018) and MIT (2020) respectively, where she worked on advanced nuclear reactor technology. She then shifted her research interest to biomedicine and completed an MSc in radiation biology at the University of Oxford (2021), during which her research project was on the development of an X-ray FLASH radiotherapy device. She wishes to continue applying her engineering skills in the field of life sciences at the Franklin.