2020-present Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
2019-present Co-director, CCSG Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center,
2013-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
2013-present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
2012-2013 Bioinformatics Scientist, Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
2019 Data Science Rotation for Advancing Discovery Trip (RoAD-Trip), Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)
2019 Innovation Corps (I-Corps TM) - National Innovation Network Nodes Program
2009 Mark Diamond Research Fund, University at Buffalo
2004-2007 Presidential and Dean’s Scholarship, University at Buffalo
1999-2001 Outstanding Student Scholarship, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China
1998 Province fourth-place in men's 3000 meters at Anhui Key High School Olympic, China
1996 First Prize in Anhui Division in the National Middle School Chemistry Competition, China
2010-2012 Postdoctoral follow, Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
2004-2010 Ph.D., Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
1999-2004 B.S., Biological Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Conference reviewer served
2019 Review Committee, The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting
Grant reviewer served
2017 Study section member, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competition, Genome Canada, Canada
2020 Study section member, Single-Cell Omics, Genome British Columbia, Canada
2021 Study section member, Department of Defense - Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
Editorship
Editorial Board
International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design (IJCBDD)
Guest Editor
Frontiers in Genetics, special Issue: "Early Detection and Diagnosis of Cancer" 2020
Frontiers in Genetics, special Issue: “Ultra-Sensitive Detection of Cancer: Methodology, Mechanism, and Applications” 2018-2019
Ad hoc Reviewer
Routine
• Nature Communications
• Frontiers series
• BMC series
Occasional
• Science
• Science Translation Medicine
• Blood
• Bioinformatics
• Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics
• PLOS ONE
NCI Immuno-Oncology Translational Network (IOTN) & Cancer Immune Monitoring and Analysis Centers and Cancer Immunologic Data Commons (CIMAC-CIDC) joint Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Working Group Meeting. "New insights revealed by ultra-sensitive detection of somatic mutations". Virtual Meeting, 1/22/2021
NCI Drug Resistance and Sensitivity Network (DRSN) Single Cell Working Group Meeting. "UV-induced mutations in the normal skin: patterns and utilities". Virtual meeting, 1/11/2021
International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM). “An adaptive method of defining negative mutation status for multi-sample comparison using next-generation sequencing.” Virtual meeting, 08/10/2020.
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Seminar. “Novel applications of ultra-deep targeted sequencing in cancer research”. Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN. 2/3/2020.
Roswell Park Department Seminar, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics. “Turning problems into opportunities: novel bioinformatics analyses of challenging data sets”. Buffalo, NY, 10/22/2019.
GYN Translational Research Group. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. “Detection of minimal residual disease and pre-cancers using ultra-deep sequencing”. Buffalo, NY, 8/28/2019.
Statistical Consulting Seminar. “Precision bioinformatics for cancer genomics.” Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 04/24/2019.
International Conference on Skin Care & Aging. “Characterization of UV-induced somatic mutations in sun-exposed human skin.” Montreal, Canada. 04/18/2019. (Keynote Speaker)
International Congress on Personalized Health Care. “Novel applications of ultrasensitive disease detection in cancer treatment and prevention.” Montreal, Canada, 09/24/2018.
Metastasis Research Society. “Ultrasensitive detection of disseminated tumor cells in intraoperative washings of Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy for bladder cancer as a potential prognosis biomarker.” Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08/03/2018.
International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM). “Comparison of SureSelect and Nextera exome capture performance in single-cell sequencing.” Los Angeles, California, 06/11/2017.
Breast Pathology-2017. “Pitfalls of improperly procured adjacent non-neoplastic tissue for somatic mutation analysis using next-generation sequencing.” Toronto, Canada, 08/23/2017.
International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium. “How to define negative data in tumor heterogeneity study?” Chicago, Illinois, 06/27/2017.
The 3rd Taishan Forum & the Fifth China Qingdao Symposium on Gynecologic Oncology and Minimally Invasive Treatment. “Bioinformatics in the Era of Precision Medicine.” Qingdao, China, 05/20/2017.
Bladder Cancer Research Working Group Meeting. “Clonal Evolution from Primary tumor to Xenograft and cisplatin resistance in Bladder Cancer by Whole-Exome Sequencing.” Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, 01/20/2017.
Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) Genetics Program Research Retreat. “High-definition characterization of tumor heterogeneity using multiple sample DNA sequencing in Sarcoma.” Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, 05/19/2016.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminar. “Characterize cancer genomes using NGS: opportunities and challenges.” Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, 02/04/2016.
Data Manager Conference. “Next-generation sequencing data analysis: Powers and Pitfalls”. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, 06/09/2015
Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) Lung Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG) Meeting. “Bioinformatics behind genetic sequencing data analysis.” Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, 5/19/2015.
Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) Genetics Program Research Retreat. “Bioinformatics for Cancer Genome Sequencing.” Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, 5/8/2014
Center for Hearing and Deafness Seminar. “Next-generation sequencing and potential applications in hearing research.” The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 3/21/2014
Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) Genitourinary Program Research Retreat. “Knowing your data- accurate analysis for cancer genome sequencing.” Holiday Valley, Ellicottville, New York, 3/28/2014.
Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar. “Accurate analysis for cancer genome project”. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, 3/18/2013.