Xiuwei Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computational Science & Engineering of Georgia Tech. She obtained her PhD in computer science from EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and conducted postdoctoral research first at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge UK and then at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on developing methods to analyze single cell sequencing data, including methods for inferring trajectories of cell differentiation, and methods for integrating multi-modality data.