Summary
I'm an assistant research professor in AI.pharm@AU research team in Harrison College of Pharmacy at Auburn University. My past research focuses on biological data mining, systems biology, network biology, artificial intelligence, visual analytics and translational informatics to improve human health. I’ve constructed several webservers and applications for functional genomics downstream analysis and drug repositioning. My current research involves characterizing driving genes and underlying molecular mechanisms using multi-omics data and single-cell data.
Work Experience
Mar 2023 - Now AI.pharm@AU research team, Harrison College of Pharmacy, Auburn, AL, US Assistant Research Professor
Dec 2020 - Feb 2023 AI.MED Lab, Informatics Institute in School of Medicine, UAB, AL, US Postdoc employee. Advisor: Jake Chen, PhD
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020 AI.MED Lab, Informatics Institute in School of Medicine, UAB, AL, US Research Assistant. Ph.D. thesis advisor: Jake Chen, PhD
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015 Bioinformatics department, Covance, Greenfield, IN, US Intern. Advisor: Walter Jessen, PhD
Jan 2014 - Jun 2016 AI.MED Lab, School of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University, IN, US Research Assistant. MS thesis advisor: Jake Chen, PhD
Nov 2012 - Dec 2013 Bioinformatics department, Capital Normal University, China Project leader
Apr 2011 - Jan 2012 ZMBP Plant Biochemistry, Tuebingen Univerisity, Germany Exchange student, Bachelor’s thesis advisor: Frédéric Brunner, PhD
Oct 2010 - Apr 2011 Bioinformatics department, Capital Normal University, China Project leader
Education
Jun. 2016 - Oct. 2020 The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Science (Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics)
Jan. 2014 - Jun. 2016 Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis, IN, USA Master’s degree in Bioinformatics
Sep. 2008 - Jun. 2013 Capital Normal University, Beijing, China Bachelor' degree in Life Science Minor: Bachelor' degree in Computer Application
Academic Service
2022 Topic editor in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
2020 - Now Associate editor in RE:GENOpen
Apr 2022 Session chair in MCBIOS Conference 2022
Apr 2021 Session chair in MCBIOS and MAQC Joint Conference 2021
Jul 2019 Session co-chair in MCBIOS 2019
Society Member
2015 – now International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Member
2014 – now Midsouth Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Senior Member
Ad-hoc Peer Review Activity
- Journal Review:
- - BMC bioinformatics
- - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- - Frontiers
- - AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association
- - Conference on Biological Information and Biomedical Engineering
- - Molecular Carcinogenesis
Teaching
2021, 2022 UAB INFO 603-703 Database course Co-instructor
2017, 2018 UAB Special Topic-Biological Data Management Teaching Assistant
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015 MURI Project (Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Initiative) Co-mentor