
Undergraduate Student
Ellie Sul
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
Peng Lab · Yi-Rong Peng
About
Her previous research experience includes evaluating CBT-based mental health apps and conducting data coding on drivers' emotion regulation behaviors at Yonsei University's Digital Mental Health Lab. She also gained laboratory experience at Yale University's School of Medicine Stem Cell Lab, performing laboratory experiments and analyzing data. As an independent researcher, she conducted research on associations between fentanyl usage and social media use among U.S. teens, as well as machine learning-based biomarkers for enhanced autism diagnosis using fundus images, both published in academic journals. Currently, as a lab assistant in Dr. Yi-Rong Peng's lab at UCLA's Stein Eye Institute, she assists with ophthalmology research and laboratory experiments, focusing on retinal development and its relationship to vision loss.