Experience

Intern Postdoctoral Researcher

University of California, Riverside

  • AAFTF - genome assembly workflow.
  • Population genomics on Rhodotorula mucilaginosa.

Graduate Student Researcher

University of California, Riverside

  • Phyling - phylogenetic inference workflow.
  • Comparative genomics on Rhodotorula genus.
  • Metagenomic analysis of microbial communities from citrus rhizosphere and elk dung.
  • Development of an OpenCV-based method to automatically detect and crop 96-well colonies from petri dish images.
  • Snakemake workflow development.

Research Assistant

Institute of Information Sciences, Academia Sinica

  • Predicting splicing patterns from the transcription factor binding sites in the promoter with deep learning.
  • iTARGEX - an analysis framework to discover novel regulatory genes associated with specific biological traits.
  • Differentially expressed LncRNA genes study on red imported fire ant.
  • ChIP-seq/FAIRE-seq/ATAC-seq data analysis.
  • HPCC administration and maintenance.

Education

PhD in Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics

University of California, Riverside

Advisor: Dr. Jason E Stajich

Dissertation: From Genomes to Ecosystems: Bioinformatic Insights Into Evolutionary and Ecological Complexity

MS in Biochemical Science and Technology

National Taiwan University

Advisor: Dr. Rong-Huay Juang

Thesis: The Role of Loop 78 in the Primer-Independent Amylose Synthesizing Activity of Plastidial Starch Phosphorylase from Sweet Potato Roots

BS in Life Sciences

National University of Kaohsiung