I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, working with Prof. Caroline Uhler and Prof. Ramnik Xavier. My research focuses on understanding and engineering cells at scale — developing computational methods to characterize cellular identity from multimodal data, map cells in their spatial context, and model or redesign their molecular programs. I am particularly interested in applications to immune recognition and programmable gene regulation.

Xi Dawn Chen*, Maile Jim*, Mounica Vallurupalli*, Kai Cao*, Andrea Navarro Torres, Jing Wesley Leong, Yifan Zhang, David Wollensak, Qiyu Gong, Jing Sun, Mehdi Borji, Gail Schor, Sofia Mrowka, Margaret Hu, Anisha Laumas, Jennifer A. Roth, Todd Golub, Fei Chen (* equal contribution)
bioRxiv 2025
Xi Dawn Chen*, Maile Jim*, Mounica Vallurupalli*, Kai Cao*, Andrea Navarro Torres, Jing Wesley Leong, Yifan Zhang, David Wollensak, Qiyu Gong, Jing Sun, Mehdi Borji, Gail Schor, Sofia Mrowka, Margaret Hu, Anisha Laumas, Jennifer A. Roth, Todd Golub, Fei Chen (* equal contribution)
bioRxiv 2025