User:Lillian.zhu

About Me

Welcome to my page! I am a freshmen pursuing biomedical engineering at Duke University. I am fascinated by the intersection of biology and emerging fields such as tissue engineering and computation, and I hope to use design to facilitate more effective scientific communication. My hobbies include travelling, playing music (mostly piano), and doing DIY projects and crafts.

Grand Challenges of Engineering: Article

Sound separates cancer cells from blood samples, A'ndrea Elyse Messer, The Pennsylvania State University, 6 April 2015, accessed 19 September 2017 (Engineer Better Medicines)

MATLAB Demo

My favorite demo was "Viewing a Penny," a script that created several visualizations of the surface of a penny (contour, pseudocolor, pseudocolor with colormap, 3D surface). I found it fascinating that just loading a bunch of measurements of the surface depth throughout the penny generated such accurate and almost photographic representations. I was especially impressed by the 3D-surface plot, which accurately depicted the detailed texture of the penny. This demo shows that MATLAB also has powerful graphical capabilities, and as a biology-oriented person, I see a lot of potential for using this type of visualization on a smaller scale.