Education and Experiences

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, Jan 2013.

• M.S., Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, Sep 2007 - May 2009.

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Sep 2003 - June 2007.

Research Experiences

• Associate Professor, National Taiwan University, Aug 2023 - present. 

• Stanford Biodesign Global Faculty Trainee, Jan 2024 - June 2024. 

• Director of Machine Learning Science, Freenome, Dec 2021 - July 2023.

• Senior Manager and Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Freenome, Oct 2020 - Nov 2021.

• Staff machine learning scientist, Freenome, July 2019 - Sep 2020.

• Senior machine learning scientist, Freenome, Oct 2017 - June 2019.

• Simons Postodoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, PI: Prof. Yun S. Song, Aug 2015 - Aug 2017.

• Postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Berkeley. PI: Prof. Yun S. Song, Sep 2013 - Aug 2015.

• Postdoctoral researcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. PI: Prof. Alfred Hero, Feb 2013 - June 2013.

• Research visitor at Supélec and AgroParisTech, France, June 2012.

• Research visitor at Supélec, France, June 2011.

• Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of Michigan, advisor: Prof. Alfred Hero, co-advisor: Prof. Clayton Scott, 2008 - Jan 2013.

Peer Review Experiences

• Reviewer of BMC bioinformatics

• Reviewer of CSDA, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

• Reviewer of ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

• Reviewer of ICIP, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Honors and Awards

• Yushan Young Fellow, 2023.

• Young Woman Rising Star in AI award, International Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2022.

• Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Travel Award, July 2016.

• Computational Biology and Genomics Retreat Oral Presentation Award, Nov 2014.

• Winner of Engineering Graduate Symposium, Signal Processing and Computer Vision track, Nov 2012.

• Elected as a member of the honor society Phi Kappa Phi, Mar 2009.

• Systems One Year Merit Fellowship, Jan 2008 - Dec 2008.

• National Science Council Undergraduate Research Scholarship, July 2006 - Feb. 2007.

• National Taiwan University Presidential Awards in 2003 and 2004.