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Nathan Chen

Nathan Chen is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in Statistics & Data Science. He is currently attending a Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical program as he prepares for a career in medicine, with an interest in becoming a physician-scientist. He is from Salt Lake City, UT and moved to Southern California at 13 years old to pursue a career in figure skating. He began skating at the age of 3 and has skated competitively since then. He is the 2022 Olympic men’s champion, 2022 Olympic team event champion, 2018 Olympic bronze medalist, 3-time World champion, and 6-time U.S. national champion. He was recognized on the Time100 and Forbes 30-under-30 list. He was nominated for a People’s Choice Award, Laureus Award, and an ESPY Award. He is a founding member of Gold House, a non-profit organization of Asian founders dedicated to creating more multicultural representation and societal equity. At Yale, he was an undergraduate researcher with the Cardiovascular Research Center in the Kwan lab leveraging deep learning to analyze genomic data to better understand the impact of variants of known and uncertain significance on cardiovascular outcomes. 

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