Mingyue Xue joined the Croitoru lab as a post-doctoral research fellow in 2021 after completing a PhD in Clinical Data Science in China. Her current project is part of the GEM project to investigate the pre-clinical state of Crohn’s disease. Specifically, she is developing machine learning and/or statistical approaches for multi-omics data structures to predict individuals’ risk of developing Crohn’s disease and uncover possible triggers of Crohn’s disease. She wants to collaborate with team members from different majors to improve the ability to prevent the disease from taking hold in the first place.