About

Education

ETH Zurich

Sep. 2017 - Present, Zurich Switzerland

Master Candidate in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

China Agricultural University

Sep 2013 - Jun 2017, Beijing China

B.S. in Plant Protection

Research Experience

System Group, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich

Mar 2019 - Present, Zurich Switzerland
Lab Rotation Student

Predict protein sequence based on sequence-structure relationships with genetic algorithm

Computational Evolution Group, Department of Biosystem Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich

Sep 2018 - Jan 2019, Zurich Switzerland
Lab Rotation Student

Implement Gillespie Algorithm to simulate the stochastic birth-death process
Implement Particle Filtering algorithm to simulate phylogenetic trees conditioned on known sample times, and compare with Markov Chain Monte-Carlo method under the same model

Bioinformatics Division, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University

Apr 2016 - Jun 2017, Beijing China
Bachelor Thesis Student

Process and analyze high-throughput data (Hi-C and RNA-Seq) from 12 human tissues to infer the lncRNAs in maintaining chromatin interactions
Introduced HCID (Human Chromatin Interaction Database), a 3D Genome database for biological researchers

Division of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta

Jul 2015 - Oct 2015, Edmonton Canada
Research Intern

Collect mountain pine beetle, build the environment for mountain pine beetle’s (MBP’s) egg hatching
Monitor the MBP symbiotic fungus’ growth status
Analysis growth data of MBP’s egg and symbiotic fungus with R, research on the affects of terpenoid in pine on mountain pine beetle’s growth and reproductive capacity

State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University

Dec 2014 - Dec 2015, Beijing China
Undergraduate Research Student

Apply RT-LAMP method on detection of ACLSV and optimised on the detecting temperature and duration

Publication

Peng, D., Xie, J., Qiang, W., Ling, K. S., Guo, L., Fan, Z., & Zhou, T. (2017). One-step reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for detection of Apple chlorotic leaf spot virus

Course Project

Repeated Experiment: Identify red blood cell traits-associated genetic variation based on 2-sided Mann-Whitney-U test
Automatic human sleep stage recognition from EEG/EMG by applying supervised machine learning algorithms
Time series classification on discrete heart rate signal from ECG
Diagnosis of heart diseases (Acute Coronary Syndrome VS Takostubo Syndrome) using echocardiography video data

Intern

Bluepha Co. Ltd.

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018, Shenzhen China
Intern

Compararive analysis of the genome sequence of Ralstonia Eutropha H16 and its mutant strain to find and visualize rearrangements
Processed gene data with Python and use sequence visualization tolls to examine the alignment of long genomic regions