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MS Biomedical Engineering · USC 2025

Meredith Linshu
Liu

I paint, bake, and tinker with biotech in my free time. Based in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.

Meredith Liu
Serious Work
Neural Decoding · BCI · 2025

Neural Handwriting
Decoding

Benchmarked RNN/LSTM vs TCN architectures on 192-channel intracortical motor cortex recordings. TCN reached 64.2% within-session accuracy at 7× the inference speed — but both collapsed to ~9% cross-session, exposing the real frontier of clinical BCI deployment.

64.2%
Within-session accuracy
Inference speed advantage
~9%
Cross-session accuracy
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Stem Cell Research · UC Irvine · 2022–23

Retinal Research
UC Irvine

Four parallel tracks: retinal organoid design and culture from EPSCs, microfluidic chip design for double emulsion PLGA nanoparticle encapsulation, tissue clearing protocol development, and IFA characterisation of subretinal chip and xenograft biocompatibility in a rat model.

Organoids Microfluidics Confocal imaging IFA
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Side Quests
Art · Ongoing Always

Oil Painting

A curated collection of oil paintings and sketches created over the years, exploring themes of light, texture, and emotion.

Play on Van Gogh's famous painting and his ear
Pastry · 2025

3 Day Neopolitan Pizza

First experiment with 90% hydration enrich brioche with 36 hour fermentation.

The best Brioche Oil
Pastry · 2026

The Best Brioche

90% Hydration, 60% cultured butter enriched, 36 hour fermentation.

Fun Idea · 2025

Baguette Lamp

Dehydrated baguette that is encased in resin.

Fun Idea · Ongoing

Making Mouth Guard at Home

Why pay 200 dollars when you can pay 100 dollars and spend hours on it yourself.

Currently In Progress
Computational Pharmacology · 2025

Drug Interaction
Prediction

Building a PBPK + off-target binding pipeline to predict clinical drug–drug interaction outcomes. Validated against Phase II/III trial data. Applicable to lead optimization and trial design at research-stage biotech.

In progress — validation pipeline being built
Research Note · 2025

Petrodollars & Biopharma

Early-stage research note on how Gulf SWF allocation cycles ripple into biopharma funding and valuations. The lag structure is where the analysis lives.

Conceptual stage