Experience

Education

Vanderbilt University

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Computational Biology, Spatial Transcriptomics, and Interpretability
08/2021 - 08/2026

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

M.S. in Computer Science
09/2018 - 06/2021

University of California, Berkeley

Biosciences Study Abroad (BBSA)
Visiting student
08/2016 - 01/2017

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

B.S. in Bioinformatics
09/2014 - 06/2018

Selected Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Genetics, WashU Medicine, St. Louis, MO
PIs: Yang Xie and Guanghua Xiao
08/2026 - present

NeuroAI Research Intern, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, NY
Research intern
05/2025 - 10/2025

Academic Service

Program Chair

IEEE BIBM 2026 Workshop on algorithmic advances for spatial omics data analysis (Dallas, TX)

Program Committee

MICCAI 2026 Workshop on Medical Imaging Analysis for Spatial Omics (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

IEEE BIBM 2025 Workshop on algorithmic advances for spatial omics data analysis (Wuhan, China)

Journal Reviewer

Nature Communications/ Journal of Computational Biology/ IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics/ IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering/ Pattern Recognition

Conference Reviewer

AMIA 2025 2026 / BIBM 2025 2026 / RECOMB 2026