Xiaoran Chen joined SDSC as a senior data scientist in July 2022. Prior to this, she received her PhD at ETH Zurich in 2021. Her research was focused on unsupervised learning and anomaly detection on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. She also holds a master’s degree in bioinformatics and bachelor’s degree in biological science. Her research interest includes self-supervised learning, representation learning and general applications using machine learning methods.