Renee Hui Xin Ng

Hello, I’m Renee Ng

🧠 My PhD research combined 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 in 🇲🇾🇵🇭 taking an amorphous idea from 0 to 1 is an intrinsically rewarding process to me.

🌐 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 received my PhD from the Cognitive Science department of the University of California San Diego in 2025.

🙌 I enjoy learning about “ancestral movement” approaches to physical activity, and practicing slow-travel —immersing myself in a single location for an extended time to fully experience the culture.

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

A few questions that serve as my north star:

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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