Renee Hui Xin Ng

Hello, I’m Renee Ng

📚 I am a PhD candidate in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego.

🧠 My PhD research combines computational techniques and domain knowledge in clinical neuroscience and psychology to understand factors that contribute to brain aging in bipolar disorder.

💻 I have work experience in product management, UX research, and business development in health tech startups.

🌐 I love building community — Building out Nucleate’s Global Life Sciences program to faciliate connections between Nucleate chapters across the world and co-founding TechBio Transformers reinforced my belief that accelerating innovation means empowering the people behind it.

🙌 I enjoy learning about “ancestral movement” approaches to physical activity by practicing and learning contemporary dance and martial arts.

✨ My Chinese name is Hui Xin (慧欣) — indeed there is a space between my first name.

The following questions serve as my north star I continue to grow as a scientist:

How can we leverage computational techniques and power to advance biomarker discovery and personalized medicine?
How can we incentivize best practices for reproducibility and replicability (e.g., data sharing, detailed methods section, and publishing negative data)?
How can we translate science into real-world impact—i.e. what does it take to bring scientific innovation to market responsibly and effectively?

I value community, mentorship, curiosity, and purpose-aligned leadership over linear career paths or titles. I am excited by who I get to learn from and build with.

Check out this gallery to learn more about my past projects and articles about things I’ve learnt along the way while doing research.

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