Kiralee M. Hayashi is an American

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, actress, and gymnast. She is known for her work on '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2'', '' Transformers: Age of Extinction'', and ''

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Background

Hayashi was born and raised in

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. She is of

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ese, Portuguese,

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& Irish descent. Her success as a gymnast gained her a full scholarship to

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, where she studied

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

Academia

While at

she did research in the

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's group at Laboratory of Neuro Image (LONI). She co-authored several papers on neuroscience topics. She has a low Erdős number of just three through the publication ''Brain surface parameterization using

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structure'' which was coauthored by Shing-Tung Yau. Yau published ''On sampling Markov chains'' together with Ronald Graham, and Graham authored ''On Sum of Fibonacci Numbers'' together with

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Gymnastics

While at

she was also a notable gymnast. One of the most highly recruited freshmen her graduating year. She garnered 9 All-American titles (both first and second team). And was a National Balance Beam champion. She was Pac-10 gymnast of the year in 1999 and Pac-10 Conference Medalist for 1998-99, her senior year. And was a two-time Pac-10 All-Academic selection. Hayashi was a finalist for the AAI American Award, given annually to the nation's most outstanding all-around senior gymnast.

Filmography

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Television

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