Summary

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HHMI and University of Michigan. Investigating lineage-guided neural wiring codes in the Drosophila brain.

Education

• Ph.D. in Bioinformatics

  2025-05
  University of Michigan
• M.S. in Bioinformatics

  2020-05
  University of Michigan
• B.S. in Biological Science

  2018-05
  ShanghaiTech University

Work Experience

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  2025-05-01 -
  HHMI & University of Michigan

  Investigating lineage-guided neural wiring codes in the Drosophila brain with Dr. Tzumin Lee and Dr. Tomer Stern.
• Ph.D. Candidate & Research Associate

  2019-01-01 - 2025-05-31
  University of Michigan

  Developed CytoSignal, TopoVelo, and CytoSimplex for spatial transcriptomics. Advisor: Dr. Joshua Welch.
• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  2017-06-01 - 2017-10-31
  University of Oxford

  Constructed transgenic Drosophila lines. Advisor: Dr. Clive Wilson.
• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  2016-09-01 - 2018-06-30
  ShanghaiTech University

  Studied enzyme compartmentation in budding and fission yeast. Advisor: Dr. Ji-Long Liu.

Teaching

• MCDB 421 — Single-Cell Data Integration

  2025
  University of Michigan

  Role: Guest Lecture

  Guest lecture on single-cell data integration: modalities, batch effects, integration methods (LIGER, Seurat, Harmony).

Interests

• Neural Circuit Wiring
• Spatial Transcriptomics
• Single-Cell Genomics
• Cell-Surface Adhesion Codes
• Computational Method Development
• Developmental Neurobiology