CV
General Information
Employment
- 08/2024 - Current
Hale Assitant Professor
Georgia Institute of Technoloy, Atlanta, GA
Education
- 09/2018 - 05/2024
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Dissertation title Topological Representation and Dimensionality Reduction of Single Cell RNA Sequencing and Viral Phylogenetic Data
- Advisor Prof. Guowei Wei
- 09/2014 - 07/2018
B.Sc.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- Applied Mathematics
Experience
- 05/2020 - 07/2024
Research Assistant
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- 08/2018 - 05/2020
Teaching Assistant
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- 01/2016 - 05/2018
Undergraduate Researcher, Mathematics Department
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- 01/2016 - 05/2018
Undergraduate Researcher, Physics Department
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Website Developed
- 2020
MutationTracker
- An interactive website for tracking SARS-CoV-2 mutations.
- 2021
MutationAnalyzer
- An interactive website for analyzing Spike protein RBD mutations.
Honors and Awards
- 01/2023
- College of Natural Science Completion Fellowship
- 10/2022
- Women in Mathematics Travel Award
- 04/2020
- Hertert T. Graham Scholarship Award
- 05/2017
- SOURCE Summer Research Grant
- 07/2017
- Research Education for Undergraduate (REU)
Research Interests
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Single Cell Omics Data
- Downstream analysis, Differential Gene Expression (DGE), Cell-Cell Communication, Spatial-Temporal analysis, Multi-omics analysis, Clustering and Visualization
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Dimensionality Reduction
- Correlated Clustering and Projection (CCP), Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), Principle Components Analysis, Deeplearning based dimensionality reduction (Transformers, Convolutional Neural Network), UMAP, t-SNE
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Data Visualization
- Residue Similarity Plots, Vector Field Analysis, Anisotropic Motion, 3D molecular visualization
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Computational Topology and Geometry
- Persistent Spectral Graph, Hessian Analysis, Curvature, Differential Geometry
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Machine Learning
- Convolution neural network(CNN); U-Net; Long Short Term Memory network (LSTM); Gated Recurrent Units (GRU); Multitask learning; Transfer learning; AutoEncoder; Generative Adversarial Network (GAN); Clustering
Programming Languages
- Python, R, MATLAB, C++
Molecular Visualization and Computer Graphics Softwares
- VMD, PyMOL, ChimeraX