Li, Victoria R

Victoria Li is a senior at Hunter College High School who has been studying computational biology with Dr. Frank Zhang since the summer after her sophomore year (June 2020). In her project, Victoria created CROTON, a deep learning model that predicts CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing outcomes. Victoria’s work can help make CRISPR/Cas9-based experiments and therapies more effective, consistent, and equitable. Victoria’s research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Bioinformatics (https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab268), and she presented her research at 2021 ISMB/ECCB, the International Society for Computational Biology’s flagship conference. For her research, Victoria has also been recognized as a Top 40 finalist in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious high school STEM competition.