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I am a final year Ph.D. student in Computer Science Department at UCLA. I am extremely fortunate to be advised by Prof. Sriram Sankararaman. I acquired my Bachelor Degree in BS (Summa Cum Laude) from Rutgers University with a completion of Computer Science (Highest Honor) and Mathematics majors. I graduated from Tianjin Yaohua High School in June, 2014. From September 2014, I started attending Huahzong University of Science of Technology and majoring in bioinformatics (National Science Talent Training Base). In January 2016, I transferred to Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. I completed my senior independent study under the supervising of Prof. Desheng Zhang and Dr. Zhihan Fang. Previously, I finished my internship via Bruins-In-Genomics Summer Undergraduate Research Program in summer 2018 at UCLA. I was supervised by Prof. Kevin Chen from May 2017 to December 2017. My main field of interests involves machine learning, data mining, computational genetics. Please feel free to reach out if you want to know more details.

I’m on the job market for the year 2024-2025!

Field of interests:

• Computational genetics
• Model interpretability
• Large-scale machine learning
• Causal inference

Selected Awards:

• UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship: A $20,000 stipend plus standard tuition and fees [2024]
• Outstanding Research Departmental Nomination [2023]
• Outstanding Mentorship Award [2021-2022]
• Graduate Division Fellowship Award [2020]
• Academic Excellence Scholarship [2016-2018]