A born and raised New Yorker, Juin-Wan (Juin) Zhou is currently a Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Her research interests lie in creating innovating technological advances in medicine and finding some way to make healthcare more affordable and accessible.

Previously, Juin worked in the lab of Dr. Elyse Sussman at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and studied the neurophysiological basis behind the infamous cocktail party problem through EEG and behavioral data. She was eventually given her own independent project to develop a new modality to study the cocktail party problem, in which she completed a behavioral study.

Juin is also passionate about STEM education and closing the diversity gap in STEM, and is an active participant in STEM diversity advocacy groups in her community. Throughout her undergraduate career, she mentored and tutored local students from historically underrepresented backgrounds, and taught through Fordham University’s STEP and CSTEP programs, New York-based programs geared towards helping minorities pursuing careers in STEM. Under the program, she taught Physics and Calculus to local high school students and Fordham University undergrads, and designed a Solidworks Summer class for middle school and high school students in order inspire more students to enter STEM. In the Summer of 2017, Juin was awarded the STEP Faculty Service award, “in recognition of her outstanding teaching ability and dedication to STEP scholars.”

On her down time, Juin is developing a recipe for fool-proof, stable macarons using physics, the scientific method, and her love of baking.

Birthday Cake and Earl Grey macarons