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

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