Education and Experience
EDUCATION
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- PhD candidate in Biostatistics, Aug 2019- Aug 2024 (Expected)
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Master of Science in Biostatistics, June 2019
- Bachelor of Medicine in Clinical Medicine June 2016
Duke University, Durham, NC Summer 2016
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Case Western Reserve University, Research Assistant, Cleveland, OH, USA, Aug 2020-Current
- Statistical analysis: Sensitivity analysis of using skin biomarker for diagnosis of prion diseases (Publication); Median quantile regression of Tau seeding in neurodegenerative diseases (Publication); Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) for cognitive reserve assessment using fMRI data (Paper); Linear Mixed Model and rater reliability for cross-sectional study of human vagus nerve (Publication)
- Grant proposal: NIH contract ($15.75 million) for mapping the human vagus nerve (News); NIH STTR grant for intra-operative fMRI during brain tumor surgery; Phase I clinical trial of pancreatic cancer; Longitudinal imaging study of bipolar disorder; Cross-sectional study of COVID-19 and substance use behavior in pregnant women
Merck & Co., Inc., Biostatistics Intern, Upper Gwynedd, PA, USA May 2022- Aug 2022
- Hands-on analysis with Merck ADaM trial data, study Merck trial protocol and SAP
- Research how much of the event-free survival benefit seen in Merck KN-522 trial for Keytruda can be attributed to neoadjuvant only Keytruda and continued adjuvant Keytruda, respectively
- Use Propensity Score method and external trial data to construct Arm 3 with neoadjuvant only Keytruda treatment
- Deliverable: parameterized R markdown file for future data analysis
Fudan University, Research Assistant, Shanghai Fall 2016-June 2019
- Statistical analysis: Longitudinal analysis of myopia surgery using linear mixed model (Publication); Cross-sectional study of infectious diseases(Publication 1,2); Phase III clinical trial of gastric cancer using survival analysis
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Research intern, Shanghai Fall 2017
- Data preparation for tuberculosis surveillance data in Shanghai from 1992-2016
- Analyzed the spatial and temporal features for the prevalence of tuberculosis among different population
- Found spatial clusters for poor tuberculosis treatment outcome and analyzed the risk factors for it (Publication)
Huashan Hospital, Clinical Intern, Shanghai Fall 2015-Spring 2016
- Rotated among 24 different departments in 48 weeks in Huashan Hospital, one of the top 3 hospitals in China
