Jiaqi is a graduate student in Neuroscience Program (NSP) at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She obtained her B.S. degree in neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with minors in Chemistry and Studio Art. During her undergraduate studies, she worked with Dr. Eva Anton on the neuronal primary cilia connectome in the human cerebral cortex. Joining Han Lab in 2024, her current research focuses on imaging-based spatial transcriptomics.