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I am a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, Department of Biomedical Informatics, advised by Prof. Marinka Zitnik. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UCLA, where I was advised by Prof. Sriram Sankararaman. I earned my Bachelor’s Degree (Summa Cum Laude) from Rutgers University with majors in Computer Science (Highest Honor) and Mathematics. Prior to that, from September 2014, I attended Huazhong University of Science and Technology and majored 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 supervision 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.

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]
• Warren Alpert Computational Biology and AI Network Fellow [2024]
• Outstanding Research Departmental Nomination [2023]
• Outstanding Mentorship Award, Bruins in Genomics Summer Research Program [2021-2022]
• Graduate Division Fellowship Award [2020]
• Academic Excellence Scholarship [2016-2018]