Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D in Operation Research and Management, China Agricultural University
• Visting Ph.D student in Bioinformatics, University of Toronto
• Postdoctoral fellow at McGill University Genome Centre, McGill University

Work experience

• Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (2018 - present)
• Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (2022 - present)
• Bioinformatics Consultant, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2016 - 2018)
• Research Assistant Professor, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (2011 - 2013)

Services and Outreach

• Associated Editor at Frontiers in Genetics
• Reviewer for over 20 different journals and conferences
• Organizer of DT Lunch&Learn seminar (2019-2022)
• Technical Chair of NRC Quantum Computing Workshop (2020)

Student Supervising

• Saif Zabarah (Master co-op student, University of Ottawa, winter 2019), project: DNA methylation imputation using machine learning
• Orhan Sari (Undergraduate, McGill University, summer 2020 & summer 2021), project: in silico CRISPR-Cas9 off-target effect prediction
• Renad Al-Ghazawi (Co-supervised Master student, University of Ottawa, 2021-2023), thesis project: Computational modeling of muscle regeneration dynamics from time-series single cell gene expression data
• Praveen Guttula (Co-supervised Postdoc, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute & Univesity of Ottawa, 2022-), project: AI powered design of stem cell therapy for degenerative muscle diseases