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Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Li Ding, PhD

Undergraduate university: Cornell University, 2019

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Karen L. O`Malley

Thesis Title: "Targeting Gene Expression to Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons: Characterization of Overexpression of Human Bcl-2 in a Rodent Model of Parkinson's Disease"

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Robi D. Mitra

Thesis Title: Regulation of transcription factor binding specificity: From binding motifs to local DNA context

Program: Cancer Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Kelly L. Bolton

Thesis Title: Germline Genetic Determinates of Cancer and Pre-Malignant Conditions

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Daniel E. Goldberg

Thesis Title: Study of Hemoglobin Degradation in Plasmodium falciparum and the Role of Plasmepsins in this Process

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: William A. Frazier

Thesis Title: BNIP3 Phosphorylation is a Switch that Regulates Autophagy and Cell Death

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Focused on the analysis of high dimensional omics (epigenetics and microbiome) data, subgroup identification, medical cost data, and joint models of multi-outcome data

Key words
Biostatistics, data science, machine learning, precision medicine, omics study, biomedical data mining

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Dalian Medical University, 2019

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1987

Thesis Advisor: Jacques U. Baenziger

Thesis Title: "Tyrosine Sulfation in A431 Cells"

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Thorold Theunissen, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023