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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.