Saishi Cui

Email: sc3863@drexel.edu LinkedIn Tel: (+1) 2023784767

First year PhD student in Biostatistics at Drexel University. Inquisitive, hard-working and consistent. Preparing for comprehensive exam of PhD program. Looking for opportunities in industrial area where I can apply my skills and contribute to real-world projects.

Education:

  • Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.

First year PhD student in Biostatistics, Dornsife School of Public Health


  • Georgetown University, Washington D.C., U.S.

Master of Science in Biostatistics, MS


  • Shandong University, Jinan, China

Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology, BS


Research Interests:

  • Omics data analysis

  • Machine learning methods employed in biomedical field

  • Statistical methods in Meta-analysis

  • Bayesian Inference

Technical Skills:

  • Statistical Software: R, SAS (earned SAS base and advanced cericate)

  • Computer language : Python, C++

  • Tools: LaTex, Microsoft Oce

  • Familiar : Perl, SQL

  • General : Statistical Modeling, Data analysis

Honors:

  • Graduate Research Fellowship, Drexel Univeristy Dornsife School of Public Health, Oct 2019-

  • Biomedical Graduate Scholarship, Georgetown University Medical Center, Sep 2017-Dec 2018

  • Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences Eco-Environment Elite Class, June 2015-June 2017

Experience:

  • Drexel University : Research Assistant Jan 2020 -

Helping HIV Partnership/ID clinic at Drexel Medicine to process and analyze data. Supervisor: Scarlett Bellamy, ScD, Alison Evans, ScD, Neal D. Goldstein, PhD, Zso Szep, MD.

  • Georgetown University : Research Assistant Sep 2019 -Dec 2019

Helping calculate some sample size problems, and some texting works; Words transform to Latex and Latex transform to Words etc.

Supervisor: Ao Yuan, PhD.

  • Shandong University : Research Assistant May 2016 -May 2017

Worked on a project named Marine microbial genome sequencing. To sort out marine microbial genome and do gene annotation by using Blast. Uploaded results onto NCBI database. Supervisor: Binbin Xie, PhD.

  • Shandong University : Research Assistant Sep 2014 -Sep 2015

Project Name: The Impact of South-to-North Water Diversion on Eco-environment of Nansi Lakes.

Collected satellite imaging pictures of Nansi Lakes taken since ten years ago. Utilized ArcGis software to calculate area changes of different function areas and analyzed the environmental impact. Supervisor: Zhiguo Zhang, PhD

Academic Research Programs:

Master Thesis

Prostate Cancer Meta-analysis, Aug 2018-Dec 2018

Sorted out articles about prostate cancer and extracted Kaplan-meier survival curves from those articles. Utilized Adobe illustrator and Digitizelt to extract and collected all data in those articles. Utilizing R to draw new Kaplan-meier survival curves to remedy traditional review

articles. Mentor: Xiaogang(Simon) Zhong, PhD

Practicum

Inferring intra tumor heterogeneity from high throughp ut DNA sequencing data, Feb 2018-Jun 2018

Employed multinomial distribution as a statistical model to fit the model of mixture genomes alignment. Solving a maximum likelihood mixture decomposition problem. Mentor: Xiaogang(Simon) Zhong, PhD

Graduation Thesis

The Impact of Dexamethasone on the Immune System, Sep 2016-May 2017

Injected different concentrations of dexamethasone into mice and let the mice live for same period of time. Dissected the mice, took out the thymus and spleen and weighed them. Dexamethasone can inhibit the development of thymus and spleen in mice. In medical area, for new-born babies, the dose of dexamethasone can affect their immune system development. Mentor: Zengliang Bai, PhD