About me

I am currently an Instructor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the Department of Genomics and Computational Biology, advised by Dr. Zhiping Weng and Dr. William E. Theurkauf. I earned my Ph.D in Bioinformatics from Tongji University in 2020 and joined University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School as a postdoc at 2021.
My research has been broadly focuses on using computational methods to study somatic and germline transposon insertions and mutations in human and koala genomes:

• Polymorphic and somatic transposon insertions in human diseases.
• Software development for detecting transposon insertions using whole genome sequencing data.
• Transposon transcriptional and post-transcriptional silencing via the piRNA pathway.
• Single-cell genomics and transcriptomics in human aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

Please find my CV here.