Xilin Jiang

Election Year: 2017

Election Constituency: China

Scholar Status: Scholar Alum

Rhodes Identifier: China & University 2017

Xilin Jiang

Biography

JIANG Xilin is studying biological science and statistics at Fudan University, ranking first in the school of life science. Xilin has twice received China's prestigious national scholarship, awarded to top university students. As an exchange student at the National University of Singapore and New York University, he worked with labs doing cutting-edge research in the interdisciplinary fields of biostatistics, computational biology and neuroscience. Xilin is a talented runner, winning a 1500m Shanghai university championship amongst many other medals and representing Fudan at track meets around China. He has led a rural teaching programme and a project to help students learn from entrepreneurs. Xilin's ambition is to develop statistical methods for identifying diseases and making medical treatments more targeted.