Zhou (Ellen) Yan graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a B.S degree in Electrical Engineering in 1992. In 1996, I got a M.S degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Tennessee Technological University. I have worked at GE information Services for 5 years specialized in developing software applications to support Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

The past 5 years, I have been working in VUMC Informatics Center. The projects that I have worked on includes MyHealthAtVanderbilt patient portal, MCIS, VAP Dashboard and Enterprise Service Bus etc.