Curriculum Vitae
Education · Awards · Presentations · Teaching · Publications
Education & Training
2026 – present
University of Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School · Advisor: Dr. Bingxin Zhao
2025 – 2026
Stanford University & Gladstone Institutes
Postdoctoral Researcher · Advisor: Dr. Barbara Engelhardt
2020 – 2025
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. in Biostatistics · Advisors: Dr. Yun Li, Dr. Didong Li
2018 – 2020
University of Wisconsin–Madison
M.S. in Statistics · Advisor: Dr. Qiongshi Lu
2014 – 2019
East China Normal University
B.S. in Statistics
Awards
2026
Barry H. Margolin Dissertation Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2025
Phase 1 Winner, DataWorks! Prize Challenge, National Institutes of Health ($25,000)
2025
ICSA National Science Foundation Travel Award
2025
ICSA Student Paper Honorable Mention
2024
MCBIOS Young Scientist Excellence Award
2023
Women in Machine Learning Travel Award
2022
Joan M. Truby Scholarship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Presentations
Oral
2026
Agentic AI for modern genomics study: data and opportunities
2026
Positioning manuscripts in the scientific landscape with agentic AI
2024 – 2025
Investigating spatial dynamics in spatial omics data with StarTrail
2023
Cell composition inference and identification of layer-specific spatial transcriptional profiles with POLARIS
Poster
2024
STimage-1K4M: A histopathology image-gene expression dataset for spatial transcriptomics
2023
On the identifiability and interpretability of Gaussian process models
2023
Investigating spatial dynamics in spatial omics data with StarTrail
2022
Cell composition inference and identification of layer-specific spatial transcriptional profiles with POLARIS
2020
Gamete simulation improves polygenic transmission disequilibrium analysis
Teaching
Fall 2024
Teaching Assistant, BIOS 774 — Advanced Machine Learning
Department of Biostatistics, UNC-CH
Fall 2023
Teaching Assistant, NURS 918 — Intermediate Statistics: Regression Analysis
School of Nursing, UNC-CH
Fall 2022
Teaching Assistant, BIOS 782 — Statistical Methods in Genetic Association Studies
Department of Biostatistics, UNC-CH