Education and Experience

2022-present Associate Professor, National Tsing Hua University

2019-2022  Assistant Professor, National Tsing Hua University

2017-2019  Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

2013-2016  Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

2013  Ph.D. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

          A.M. Statistics, Harvard University

2008  M.S. Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University 

2006  B.S. Life Science, National Tsing Hua University 

Honors and Awards

2023-2026  EMBO Global Investigator

09/2021 Junior Research Award (校級新進人員研究獎), National Tsing Hua University 

05/2021 Junior Research Award (院級新進人員研究獎), College of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University

08/2019  Yushan Young Scholar

07/2018  Young Investigator Travel Award, SMBE Annual Meeting

11/2016  ASTMH 2016 Annual Meeting Travel Award

07/2015  Young Investigator Travel Award, SMBE Annual Meeting

07/2013  Walter M. Fitch award finalist, SMBE Annual Meeting 

06/2012  Graduate Student Travel Award, SMBE Annual Meeting

06/2011  Graduate Student Travel Award, SMBE Annual Meeting

06/2009  Scholarship and Travel Award, the 14th Annual Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics

06/2008  Honorary Member, the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society

Presentations

02/2023

Presenting “The application of mathematical modeling and pathogen genomics to infectious diseases” at TIGP Bioinformatics Seminar, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

02/2023

Presenting “The application of mathematical modeling and pathogen genomics to infectious diseases” at Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

12/2022

Presenting “The use of pathogen population genetics for infectious disease epidemiology and control” at Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

11/2022

Presenting “The application of pathogen genomics and mathematical modeling to infectious diseases” at Department of Biochemical Science & Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

11/2022

Presenting “Discovering recent selection forces shaping the evolution of dengue viruses based on polymorphism data across geographic scales” at 2022 Multiomics and precision medicine joint conference, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

10/2022

Presenting “Understanding how infectious diseases spread using pathogen genomics and mathematical modeling “ at International Symposium on Medical Data Science 2022. (Invited talk)

09/2022

Presenting “The use of disease modeling to inform COVID-19 response” at 中央研究院人文社會科學研究中心「網路經濟學演講及讀書會」      (Invited talk)

08/2022

Presenting at Molecular Evolution Mini-Symposium, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

03/2022

Presenting “Discovering recent selection forces shaping the evolution of dengue viruses based on polymorphism data across geographic scales” at International Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics 2022, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

01/2022

Presenting “The impact of human mobility on infectious disease dynamics” at 2022 AI & Data Science Workshop, Hualien, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

01/2022

Presenting “The use of mathematical modeling on infectious disease epidemiology and control” at Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Lecture Series, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

10/2021

Presenting “The use of disease modeling to inform COVID-19 response” at the Institute of Statistics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

09/2021

Presenting “通訊資料分析之防疫應用” and “Combing mobility data to assess risk of transmission” at the 2021 Taiwan Public Health Joint Annual Conference. (Invited talk)

07/2021

Presenting “The use of mathematical modeling on infectious diseases control” at the 15th Research Conference, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Fujian, China. (Online) 

06/2021

Presenting “通訊資料分析之防疫應用” at 台灣公共衛生學會「2021新冠病毒公共衛生社區防疫教育課程」. (Online)

03/2021

Presenting “Combining movement data and mathematical models to understand the spread of infectious diseases” at Soft Matter seminar, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

03/2021

Presenting “Accounting for human mobility in malaria elimination programs with travel and genetic data” at 1st Women in Malaria conference. (Invited keynote speaker)

01/2021

Presenting “Combining movement data and mathematical models to understand the spread of infectious diseases” at the GIS Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

12/2020

Presenting “Understanding how Infectious Diseases Spread using pathogen genomics and mathematical modeling” at the Institute of Computational and Modeling Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

11/2020

Presenting “The use of pathogen genetics and mathematical modeling for infectious disease epidemiology and control” at 2020 NHRI-NTHU Joint Research Conference, Miaoli, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

11/2020

Presenting “The use of pathogen genetics and mathematical modeling for infectious disease epidemiology and control” at the Center for Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

10/2020

Presenting “The use of pathogen population genetics for infectious disease epidemiology and control” at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk) 

05/2020

Presenting “Combining movement data and mathematical models to understand the potential spread of COVID-19 in Taiwan” at National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

05/2020

Presenting “Combining movement data and mathematical models to understand the potential spread of COVID-19 in Taiwan” at TIGP Bioinformatics Seminar, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

05/2020

Presenting “Combining movement data and mathematical models to understand the potential spread of COVID-19 in Taiwan” at the Department of Computer Science, NCTU, Hsinchu, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

12/2019

Presenting “The use of pathogen population genetics for infectious disease epidemiology and control” at Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

12/2019

Presenting “Spatial Relationships and Genomic Data to Inform Malaria Control and Elimination Efforts” at 2019 Multiomics and precision medicine joint conference, Tainan, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

11/2019

Presenting “Accounting for human mobility in malaria elimination programs with heterogeneous travel data” at 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, National Harbor, MD, USA. (Oral)

11/2019

Presenting “Combining epidemiological and genomic data to estimate the spatial spread of malaria parasites” at International Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics 2019, Miaoli, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

11/2019

Presenting “Combining epidemiological and genomic data to estimate the spatial spread of malaria parasites” at 2019 NHRI-NTHU Joint Research Conference, Miaoli, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

06/2019

Presenting “Spatial Relationships and Genomic Data to Inform Malaria Control and Elimination Efforts” at Geographic Perspectives on Infectious Diseases in Humans, Animals, and the Environment Symposium at the Center for Geographic Analysis, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Invited talk)

05/2019

Presenting “Mapping imported malaria in Bangladesh using parasite genetic and human mobility data” at MIDAS Network Meeting, Bethesda, MD, USA. (Oral)

04/2019

Presenting “Mapping imported malaria in Bangladesh using parasite genetic and human mobility data” at 17th Annual Jonathan Freeman Symposium on the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Boston, MA, USA. (Oral)

10/2018

Presenting “Quantifying population structure of malaria parasites using epidemiological and genomic data” at 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, New Orleans, LA, USA. (Poster)

07/2018

Presenting “Quantifying population structure of malaria parasites using epidemiological and genomic data” at 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Yokohama, Japan. (Poster)

06/2018

Presenting “Quantifying population structure of malaria parasites using epidemiological and genomic data” at the Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria conference, Hinxton, UK. (Invited talk)

05/2017

Presenting “Systematic analysis of protein identity between Zika virus and other arboviruses” at MIDAS Network Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA. (Poster)

05/2017

Presenting “Concurrently estimating the complexity of infection and SNP allele frequency for malaria parasites” at 15th Annual Jonathan Freeman Symposium on the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Boston, MA, USA. (Oral)

03/2017

Presenting “The use of pathogen population genetics for inferring pathogen migration” at Microbial Group Meeting, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Invited talk)

01/2017

Presenting “Population structure and natural selection of dengue virus” at 8th Permafrost Workshop, Bormio, Italy. (Oral)

01/2017

Presenting “The use of pathogen population genetics for infectious disease epidemiology and control” at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Okinawa, Japan. (Oral)

11/2016

Presenting “Concurrently estimating the complexity of infection and SNP allele frequency for malaria parasites” at 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Atlanta, GA, USA. (Oral)

06/2016

Presenting “Concurrently estimating the complexity of infection and SNP allele frequency for malaria parasites” at the 6th Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria conference, Hinxton, UK. (Oral)

05/2016

Presenting “Concurrently estimating the complexity of infection and SNP allele frequency for malaria parasites” at MIDAS Network Meeting, Reston, VA, USA. (Poster)

04/2016

Presenting “Identifying the effect of patient sharing on between-hospital genetic differentiation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus” at 14th Annual Jonathan Freeman Symposium on the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Boston, MA, USA. (Oral)

12/2015

Presenting “Identifying the effect of patient sharing on between- hospital genetic differentiation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus” at Epidemics5, Clearwater, FL, USA. (Oral)

10/2015

Presenting “Modeling the evolutionary dynamics within and between hosts in malaria chronic and acute infections” at 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Philadelphia, PA, USA. (Invited talk) 

07/2015

Presenting “Selection efficiency in chronic and acute malaria infections: The effect of overlapping generations” at 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vienna, Austria. (Oral)

04/2015

Presenting “Chronic infections enhance selection efficiency in malaria parasites” and “Identifying the effect of patient sharing on between-hospital genetic differentiation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus” at MIDAS Network Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA. (Poster)

04/2015

Presenting “Chronic infections enhance selection efficiency in malaria parasites” at 13th Annual Jonathan Freeman Symposium on the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Boston, MA, USA. (Poster)

11/2014

Presenting “Comparing selection efficiency in chronic and acute malaria infections” at 63th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, New Orleans, LA, USA. (Poster)

05/2014 

Presenting “Comparing genetic drift and selection efficiency in chronic and acute malaria infections” at 2014 Biology of Genomes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA. (Poster)

11/2013

Presenting “The effect of malaria life cycle and transmission intensity on the evolution of malaria parasites” at Epidemics4, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Poster)

07/2013

Presenting “The malaria life cycle intensifies both natural selection and random genetic drift” at 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Chicago, IL, USA. (Oral)

08/2012

Presenting “Random genetic drift and selection in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum” at Boston Evolutionary Genomics Supergroup Retreat 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Oral)

06/2012

Presenting “Population genetic inferences of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum” at 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Dublin, Ireland. (Oral)

04/2012

Presenting “Population genetic inferences of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum“ at Workshop on Selection in Population Genetics, Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Invited talk)

04/2012

Presenting “Population genetic inferences of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum“ at 9th Annual G4 Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Oral)

12/2011

Presenting “Population genetic inferences of Plasmodium falciparum based on fully sequenced genomes from Senegal“ at 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Philadelphia, PA, USA. (Poster)

10/2011 

Presenting “Population genetic inferences of Plasmodium falciparum on fully sequenced genomes from Senegal“ at Microbial Evolution Meetings, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Oral)

07/2011

Presenting “Population genetic inferences of Plasmodium falciparum on fully sequenced genomes from Senegal“ at Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

07/2011

Presenting “Population genetic inferences of Plasmodium falciparum based on fully sequenced genomes from Senegal“ at 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Kyoto, Japan. (Oral)

07/2010

Presenting “Whole-genome analysis of polymorphism in Plasmodium falciparum“ at 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Lyon, France. (Poster)

03/2008

Presenting “Reduced nucleotide diversity on the neo-Y chromosome of Drosophila albomicans“ at 49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, CA, USA. (Poster)

01/2008

Presenting “Reduced nucleotide diversity on the neo-Y chromosome of Drosophila albomicans“ at 16th Symposium on recent advances in cellular and molecular biology, Pingtung, Taiwan. (Poster)

05/2007

Presenting “Testing the Chromosomal Speciation Hypothesis for Drosophila albomicans and D. nasuta“ at 2007 Annual Symposium on Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, in NTU and NTNU, Taipei, Taiwan. (Poster)