Background
My research career starts from my work as research intern at the University of Iowa Department of Surgery, where I learned to conduct parametric testing and statistical modeling on joints' range of movements from burnt patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This experience ignited my passion for applying statistical methods to solve real-world biomedical problems.
During my study at Columbia University, following the lead of Drs. Hanga Galfalvy and Melanie Wall, I developed reproducible clustering analysis emphasizing on patients in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Bipolar, and Remitted Depressed Study Group. These early projects laid a solid foundation for my subsequent academic research and inspired me to pursue a Ph.D. in seeking answers on how we may leverage statistical rigors to complex biomedical questions.
Proceeding in my doctoral studies, I span multi-disciplinary research in computational biology and statistical methodology development, centered on modeling the dynamics of complex biological systems and applying novel mathematical models to advance the combinatorial Cancer treatments.
