Work experience

  • Senior Bioinformatics Specialist
    Labcorp, July 2023 - present
    remote, Pittsburgh, PA
    Roles & Projects:
    • Developed computational methods and pipelines for virus subtyping and strain-level identification from the metagenomics samples
    • Developed and re-engineering the data structure and algorithms of tools and software to provides verbose log, improve accuracy, and reduce computational cost
    • Developed pipeline for metabolomic pathway prediction from microbiome sequencing data- using statistical and machine learning methods, focusing on the discovery of biomarkers related to women’s health diseases.
  • Data Science / Bioinformatics Summer Intern
    Labcorp, May 2022 - Aug 2022
    remote, Pittsburgh, PA
    Roles & Projects:
    • Predict gut metabolites from gut microbiome data using machine learning:
      • Developed highly accurate data pipelines to predict gut metabolites and metagenome functions from gut microbiome data
      • Explored combination of parameters of feature selection to increase accuracy
      • Managed to work on a Colorectal Cancer dataset and achieved all metabolites well predicted (using Spearman correlation coefficient as the metric)
    • AWS resource access control:
      • Developed a web application to enable the AWS resource access control and deployed to ECS
      • Developed on service end to create IAM roles to access AWS resource (S3 and DynamoDB)
      • Developed on front end to implement the user interface

Teaching

I have been TA for the following courses:

  • CMPSC-465, Data Structures and Algorithms, Fall 2020
  • CMPSC-465, Data Structures and Algorithms, Spring 2022

Services

Conference reviewer:

  • RECOMB 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
  • ISMB/ECCB 2022, 2021, 2020
  • WABI 2021
  • ACM-BCB 2020, 2022
  • APBC 2020

Journal reviewer:

  • Heliyon
  • Biochemical Genetics