Han Chen completed her BS in Bioengineering at UCLA where her research included developing a parallel plate flow chamber device for modeling shear forces in traumatic brain injury. After college she worked at Stanford studying immune response to infection using large-scale mass cytometry experiments and developing computational algorithms for modeling host-pathogen interactions. She is currently a graduate student in the Biological and Medical Informatics Program at UCSF, joint within the Theodoris and Pelka Labs, and she is a 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellow. In her graduate research, she is developing computational methods leveraging spatial transcriptomics data to understand cell-cell interactions with a particular focus on the role of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment. Outside of the lab, she enjoys tennis, ultimate frisbee, climbing, and backpacking.