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Undergraduate at UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Research Intern at Salk Institute

About Me

Hi, My name is Kaiwen (Kevin) Bian and I am a undergraduate student at UCSD double majoring in Data Science and Cognitive Behavoral Neuroscience and minoring in Mathematics. I am passionate about finding bridges between Data Science and Neuroscience through forms of algorithm, machine learning, and mathamatics to better understand different forms of intelligence, natural or artificial. Particularly, I am interesting in incorporating biological perspectives (psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science) into engineering perspectives to create new things, both abstractly in mathamatics and conceretly as computational tools for better solving both the engineering and science problem. I want to do good mathematics and engineering. I like mathematical formulation, making symbols come to reality, parsing dynamics and not only making things work, but understanding why the things I design works, or why the solution I find solves this scientific question that I am asking. Here are some of my research philosophies.

I am fluent in both Chinese and English, and open-minded for new ideas and learning opportunities. Outside of my academic life, I enjoy skateboarding and diving into the world of exercise physiology, kinesiology, and nutrition for establishing a theoritical perspective for workouts in all domains 🏋️.