I am a Research Associate in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics and the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania, as part of Dr. Li Shen’s research team.

With a background in bioinformatics, genomics, and genetics, I specialize in applying computational and omics-based approaches to understand mechanisms underlying complex diseases and translate these findings into actionable clinical insights.

My research focuses on several areas, including (1) leveraging in-house and publicly available omics datasets, together with biobank resources to identify genetic variants, genes and pathways involved in disease pathogenesis; (2) integrating multiomics data to prioritize clinically actionable genetic variants and moledular targets; and (3) developing open-source bioinformatics tools and pipelines for reproducible analysis and visualization of multiomics data.

I serve as a guest lecture in several master and PhD-level courses. Specifically, I have given lectures on Transcriptomic Data Analysis and Functional Enrichment Analysis (BMIN 503: Data Science hosted by Dr. Blanca Himes), Introduction to Bioinformatics (BMIN 501: Introduction to Biomedical Informatics hosted by Dr. Fuchiang Tsui), and Community Resources for Genetic Studies (EPID 575: Genetic Epidemiology hosted by Drs. Adam Naj and Tiffani Johnson). In addition, I help train undergraduate, master and PhD students as well as clinical trainees to do research in the field of genetics and bioinformatics.

I earned my PhD degree in Genetics from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. During my PhD training, I received training in statistical genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. I completed postdoctoral training in biomedical informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. Here is my CV.