Zeena Ammar graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. During her time there, she took part in the Co-op program working in the Research and Development department at Bard Medical. Her undergraduate research involved building a quantitative database for a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease and extracting data on the relationship between amyloid-beta levels and cognitive task performance. During her final year at Georgia Tech she worked with the Grady Trauma Project and helped in collecting psychophysiological data to measure fear response in pregnant women across their pregnancy. As a graduate student, Zeena worked in the neuroscience program at Emory University working with Dr. Sarah Shultz at the Marcus Autism Center.