Xu, Nan
Assistant Professor
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Brain and Behavior Institute
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Brain and Behavior Institute
3218 A. James Clark Hall
Dr. Nan Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and the Brain and Behavior Institute at the University of Maryland, College Park, with affliate appointments in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Edward and Jennifer St. John Center for Translational Engineering and Medicine, and graduate program affliations in the Neuroscience & Cognitive Science (NACS), Biophysics, and Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation (AMSC). She leads the Imaging- and Neuro-computations for Precision Informatics Research (INSPIRE) Lab.
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 2017 - Minors: Applied Mathematics and Cognitive Neuroscience
- B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, 2011
- B.A., Mathematics, University of Rochester, 2011 - Minor: Music
Professional Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University, 2019–2024
- Visiting Scientist, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, 2022
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2017–2018
Professional Memberships
- Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
Selected Honors and Awards
- NIH BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, 2023
- Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, 2026
- EMBS Student Paper Competition Finalist, 2016
- “Top 10%” Paper Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2015
- Goldman Sachs & Co. Scholarship, 2011–2012
- ECE Faculty Award, University of Rochester, 2011
- Phi Beta Kappa, 2011
- BIOE689N/NACS728Z: Network Neuroscience and Brain Dynamic Analysis.
- BIOE241: Biocomputational Methods.
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