Xin Mu is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto, Canada while conducting her research at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany. Her current research interest is integrated photonics with a focus on flip-chip bonded laser diodes and implantable multifunctional silicon photonic neural probes. She received her B.S. (2017) and M.S degrees (2020) in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China. She has coauthored over 35 journal papers (Applied Science, Optics Communications, npj Biosensing, Communication Materials, Optics Express, etc.) and conference papers (OFC, CLEO, etc.). Xin is currently an Optica student member, and received major awards including Corning Women in Optical Communications Travel Grant, National Scholarship for Graduate Students, IEEE ICOCN Best Student Paper Award, etc.