Vivian is a third year MD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, with extensive interest in bio-inspired engineering for medical innovation and leveraging data into healthcare operations. Prior to medical school, she worked in artificial intelligence engineering in the Immunomics group at Microsoft Research, and across data integration, engineering, and product deployment at Palantir. Most recently, she interned in the strategy and technology group at Schrödinger, where she developed a therapeutic target proposal package for ovarian and gastric cancers including therapeutic rationale, target patient populations, deal analysis fit for Schrödinger’s computational drug discovery platform. For her research, work, and service, she was awarded the 2023 Tylenol Future Care Scholarship and the United Health Foundation Diverse Medical Scholarship. Vivian previously studied Computational Biology and Computer Information Science at Cornell University. 

Outside of class and work experiences, Vivian is passionate about mentorship and public service. She developed and scaled Excel Education Preparation, a college mentoring program aimed towards providing standardized test preparation to students in low resource communities. She currently mentors prospective medical students, tutors Harlem-area students in computer science and biology, and enjoys reformer pilates and painting.

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