A warm welcome to Xihan Xiong, who joins the University of Bristol as a Teaching Associate on the MSc Financial Technology with Data Science programme. Xihan is currently completing her PhD in Computing at Imperial College London. She holds an MSc in AI from Imperial College London, an MSc in Operations Research and Analytics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BSc in Economics from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. She is particularly interested in decentralised systems, digital finance, security and privacy, and AI applications.