LangXi (Lacie) Zhou is an incoming high school senior at South Pasadena High School, California, USA. Her research interests include cancer bioinformatics, tumor microbiome, computational biology, and artificial intelligence in medicine. She has conducted multi-omics analysis using publicly available cancer datasets to investigate host–microbe interactions in prostate cancer. She is interested in integrating computational approaches with biomedical research to advance precision oncology and plans to pursue undergraduate studies in computer science and biomedical research