CV

Education

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Houston

Aug 2020 - May 2025 (Expected)

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Informatics

University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison

Aug 2018 - May 2020

Master of Arts in Mathematics

Sun Yat-Sen University | Guangzhou

Aug 2015 - Jun 2019

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

Awards & Honors

Aug 2023, James Turley Endowed Scholarship for Global Health Award

Jun 2023, Travel Award: 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)

Mar 2022, Dr. Noriaki Aoki Fund Travel Award: AMIA 2022 Informatics Summit

Feb 2022, Second Place, Healthcare Innovation Collaborative 2022 Annual Case Competition

Aug 2020, SBMI Dean’s Excellent Award

Academic Experience

McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth | Houston

Oct 2020 - Present

Graduate Research Assistant

• Deep learning (DL)-based pharmacokinetic (PK) modeling for precision dosing using time-series EHR data;

• Clinical predictive modeling based on clinical foundation models (CFMs) and large language models (LLMs) using structured EHR data.

Translational Medicine and Early Development (TMED) Department, Sanofi | Bridgewater

Feb 2024 - Aug 2024

Co-op - Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism

• Conducted literature research to identify and understand AI/ML methods for developing population PK models;

• Implemented popular machine learning and deep learning methods using simulated and real clinical data, and compared the model performance with traditional pharmacometrics methods;

• Identified scenarios where AI/ML can complement or improve traditional pharmacometrics methods.

McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth | Houston

Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Assisted in the Deep Learning in Biomedical Informatics (BMI 6334) course.

Mathematics Department, UW-Madison | Madison

Sep 2019 - May 2020

Project Assistant

Assisted in courses: Numerical Analysis (MATH 514), Analysis I (MATH 521), and Computational Mathematics (MATH 714).

Digital China Health | Beijing

Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

Natural Language Processing Research Intern

• Conducted drug name normalization and mapping using web crawler techniques;

• Completed EHR labeling tasks using Plato.

Activities

Aug 2023, 2024 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, Reviewer

Jun 2023, 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), Session Chair

Mar 2022 - May 2023, SBMI Student Governance Organization, Academics Committee, International Student Committee

Skills

Programming Languages: Python • R • SQL • MATLAB • Java • C++ • C

Frameworks: PyTorch • TensorFlow • PEFT • scikit-learn • Keras • TensorFlow • MongoDB • Apache Pyspark

Tools: GitHub • Azure OpenAI • HuggingFace • Docker • Tableau • LaTex