Career Profile

Statistics, Oncology, Plant-Pathogen Interaction

Experiences

Volunteer Research Assistant

06/2019 - Present
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Transposable Element Expression Pattern Analysis

  • Performing normalization and batch corrections on quantified transposable element data
  • Using t-SNE and PCA methods to visualize potential transposable element differential expressions

Research Assistant

06/2018 - 06/2019
Rice University, Houston, TX

Omics Data Analysis

  • Performed Hierarchical Cluster Analysis to reveal differential gene expressions among plant tissues
  • Revealed functional genes in plant defense pathways with Gene Set Enrichment Analysis

Course Project

02/2018 - 04/2018
Rice University

Phase I Clinical Trial Design Test

  • Tested the accuracy and safety of Bayesian Optimal Interval Design with simulated patient data

Course Project

02/2019 - 04/2019
Rice University

Project on American Gun Shooting Cases

  • Trimmed and analyzed American gun shooting data in the past decade with SQL statements
  • Visualized gun shooting distributions with different plots using SAS, including the heat map

Oncology Projects

Nanovesicles and their Potentials in Cancer Treatments, MD Anderson Cancer Center - Managed mammalian cell culture and the cell uptake of nanovesicles; Radioactive-labeled and tracked the nanovesicles in mice; Collaborated with multiple researchers from different fields
Analysis of Anti-Cancer Component Accumulations in Plants, Rice University - Participated in rat gavage and colon tumor collections; Studied circadian clock and its regulation on anti-cancer component accumulations; Collaborated with Dr. Roderick H. Dashwood at Texas Medical Center

Publications

Fungal Resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana Rosette Cores
First Author
Planta, 2019, Under Review
Characterization of Methods to Isolate Plant Exosomes and Whole-leaf Vesicles
Fifth Author
The Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 2019, Under Review
CLCuMuB βC1 Subverts Ubiquitination by Interacting with NbSKP1s to Enhance Geminivirus Infection in Nicotiana benthamiana
Fouth Author
PLOS Pathogens, 2016

Skills

R

Python

SAS

SQL