I am currently a postdoc in Dr. Rob Knight’s lab at University of California, San Diego. I obtained my Ph.D in bioinformatics (minor in Computational Science and Engineering) at Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology. My Ph.D advisor is Dr. Kostas Konstantinidis. I am very insterested in designing and implementing data structures and algorithms to solve computational problems with respect to microbial genomes. Being the most diverse group on earth, tons of microbes (e.g. bacteria, phages) have been sequenced and more than 80% of the genomic sequences in NCBI are microbial genome sequences. A total of more than 150T microbial genomic sequences has been deposited and it is growing at a speed much faster than the development of transistors. Handling those huge amount of genomic sequences from microbes requires smart data structures, efficient algorithms and high performance computing. My research aim is to combine algorithm & data structure development, parallel and concurrent computing/programming with genome informatics to solve problems in large-scale genome information mining.
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I obtained my Master degreee in Environemntal Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijng, China, under the superversion of Dr. Jizhong Zhou and Dr. Yunfeng Yang. I also visited Norwegian University of Life Science in Norway in 2018 during my Master, studying biogeochemistry, under the supervison of Dr. Jan Mulder. I did my undergraduate theis with Dr. Qirong Shen.
Personal Life
I love basketball (currently a fan of Minnesota Timberwolves) and video games (who knows how many times I have played the Red Dead Redemption 2). TO ARTHUR!
I also love Street Fighter 6 and I am on my way to be a professional player. My favourite character is CAMMY.
I have a little baby, Grace, typical ginger cat with atypical personalities. She loves sleep next to my pillow. Cute and Cute!
