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curriculum vitae

General Information

Full Name Shicong (Mimi) Xie
Languages English, Mandarin, Japanese

Education

  • 2016
    Doctor of Philosophy
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Computational and Systems Biology PhD Program
    • Adam Martin lab
  • 2010
    Bachelor of Arts
    University of California, Berkeley
    • Physics
    • Applied mathematics
    • Highest honors

Research experience

  • 2025-present
    Research scientist
    Stanford University
  • 2016-2024
    Postdoctoral researcher
    Stanford University
    • Department of Biology, Jan Skotheim lab
    • Mechanisms of mammalian cell size homeostasis in vivo
  • 2020
    Visiting researcher
    Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
    • Prisca Liberali group
    • Lightsheet imaging of intestinal organoids
  • 2010-2016
    Graduate student researcher
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Computational and Systems Biology PhD program, Adam Martin lab
    • Coordination between mechanically coupled contracting epithelial cells drives tissue folding
  • 2007-2010
    Undergraduate researcher
    UC Berkeley
    • John Kuriyan group
    • Ligand-stimulated oligomerization of EGFR
  • 2009
    Janelia undergraduate scholar
    Janelia Research Campus
    • Harald Hess group
    • Automated image calibration software for the interferometry PALM microscope prototype
  • 2008
    NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates
    The SETI Institute / NASA Ames Research Center
    • Friedemann Freund group
    • Free radical production from igneous rock under mechanical stress

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting Young Investigator Award
    • International Society for Stem Cell Research Merit Award
  • 2022
    • CytoData Meeting Single Cell Image Analysis Hackathon, Grand Prize-winning team
    • NIH Stadtman Fellow finalist
  • 2020-2023
    • National Institutes of Health, NIGMS, K99 Pathway to Independence Award (K99GM138712)
  • 2019
    • Company of Biologists, Journal of Cell Science, Travelling Fellow
  • 2018-2020
    • National Institutes of Health, NIGMS, F32 Kirschstein-NRSA postdoctoral fellowship (F32GM129878)
  • 2006-2010
    • Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship
  • 2006-2009
    • Dean's Honor List, UC Berkeley

Skills

  • Computation
    • Biological image analysis and computer vision
    • Machine learning and deep learning
    • Statistical and mechanistic modeling
    • Data engineering and visualization with Python
  • Cell and molecular biology
    • Live-cell, tissue, and intravital microscopy (two-photon, confocal, epifluorescence)
    • Quantitative immunofluorescence and flow cytometry
  • Organisms
    • Mouse intravital imaging
    • Mouse breeding and husbandry
    • Drosophila genetics

Other Interests