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I am now an Associate Staff at Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation. I am also an Associate Professor (non-tenure track) at Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, an Associate Member of Molecular Oncology Program at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and a joint faculty member of Institute for Computational Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Currently, I am the PI of NHGRI 2021 Genomic Innovator Award (R35HG011922), the sub-contract PI of the NIH 4D Nucleome Consortium Phase II Grant (UM1HG011585, PI: Ren), and the sub-contract PI of the NHGRI Small Business Innovation Research Grant (R44HG011897, PI: Schmitt).

Here is my CV (Last update: May 10th, 2024), my Google scholar citations and my lab website.

My research interests lie in Bayesian analysis in bioinformatics and statistical genetics, with particular focus on analyzing the next generation sequencing data. My most recent work focuses on genome-wide mapping and analysis of chromosome architecture, in collaboration with Dr. Bing Ren's lab, Dr. Yun Li's lab, Dr. Yin Shen's lab and Dr. Cornelis Murre's lab.

I grew up in Hefei, a beautiful city in China at the foot of the world famous Mountain Huangshan. I got my B.S. in Statistics from University of Science and Technology of China in 2006. I obtained my Ph.D. in Biostatistics from University of Michigan in 2010, under the supervision of Dr. Zhaohui Steve Qin. Before joining Cleveland Clinic, I did three year postdoctoral training (2010 ~ 2013) with Dr. Jun S. Liu at Department of Statistics, Harvard University, and was Assistant Professor (2013 ~ 2016) at Department of Population Health, Division of Biostatistics, New York University School of Medicine.