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Rose is an “idea engineer" who craves for the infinite possibilities when science and art collide into each other. She creates tools that interpret, augment, and bridge human movements and scientific notions. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in mathematics and dance choreography, she sees the need and potential of a technical revolution in the performance art industry. Now she is advancing her data analysis and computer science skills in the MPhil in Data Intensive Science program at University of Cambridge.
Rose fell in love with dance at the age of four. Her current movement style roots into her first dance training - Chinese traditional and classical dance. In high school, Rose gets exposed to contemporary dance and choreography. She runs a dance club that redefined Chinese traditional dance through the younger generation’s perspective. She holds multiple performances working as choreographer, performer, and lighting designer. Throughout four years of college life, as a student in the dance department, Rose makes dance compositions or runs performances every semester. Rose enjoyed communicating and collaborating with people from vastly different disciplines.
Rose’s family members are all scientists and engineers. Under their influence, Rose is fascinated by the concise and logic-based mathematical mindset. Studying physics and computer science allows her to see how scientists use math to tackle real-world problems. Besides dance, math, and writing fun codes, Rose also spends time looking into the sky and finds seven new X-ray flares from the only supermassive black hole in our own galaxy. Check out the press release that Rose gave at the 241st Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society on the right!
During the pandemic 2019-2023, Rose is tarpped in the US due to travel restrictions. Not going home for four years, she grows into an independent adult who is particularly good at cooking and self-reflection. Now Rose is a member of Murray Edwards College, a women’s college of University of Cambridge. She serves as the LGBTQIA+ officer of the postgraduate student body 2023-2024.
Rose (Ziyu) Xu
zx303@cam.ac.uk Cambridge,UK
zx303@cam.ac.uk Cambridge,UK