Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio. I completed my Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at the University of Southern California under the supervision of Dr. Fengzhu Sun and earned my B.S. in Statistics from Wuhan University, advised by Dr. Jieli Ding.

My research focuses on developing statistical and machine-learning methods for genomic studies, such as metagenomics and transcriptomics. I am also interested in designing statistical and deep-learning methodologies. This effort has resulted in my contributions being featured at leading bioinformatics conferences, such as RECOMB, and published in top-tier journals, including Nature Communications, Genome Biology, and Patterns, among others. I was awarded a three-year Viterbi Research Fellowship and was named a CAMS Excellence in Research.  

Research Interest

• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

• Applied Statistics and Artificial Intelligience

• Metagenomics and Transcriptomics

• Cell Cytology and Cancer Genomics

• Causal Inference