I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and a faculty member in the Center of Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Previously, I held postdoc positions at University of California, Irvine, supervised by Qing Nie,and at Michigan State University, supervised by Guo-Wei Wei. I received Ph.D. (2020) in Mathematics at University of California, Irvine.

Research Interests

My research lies on computational biology by combining computational mathematics and data science to bridge the gap between intricate biological phenomena and their mathematical representation. I am interested in building interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) models by developing and combining deep/machine learning, multiscale modeling, and topological data analysis (TDA) methods.

• Spatio-temporal cell fate dynamics
  • scRNA-seq & spatial transcriptomics
  • Graph neural networks
  • Data-driven and multi-scale modeling
• AI-aided protein engineering
  • Computational topology
  • Protein language models
  • Bayesian optimization