About Me

I am excited to be a first-year PhD student in the Statistics program at Texas A&M University since Fall 2024. I recently completed a research visit at Jian Yang’s Lab at Westlake University, which further enriched my research experience before starting my doctoral studies.

Research Experience

Mayo Clinic

Developed MicrobiomeStat R package for longitudinal data analysis
Wrote over 17,000 lines of R code
Created extensive wiki documentation (20,000+ words)
Currently developing Shiny version of MicrobiomeStat

Case Western Reserve University

First author on ggpicrust2 R package paper (published in Bioinformatics)
Package has received 97 GitHub stars and 13,000+ CRAN downloads
Focused on microbiome functional profiling

Awards and Achievements

Su Binghua Distinguished Biostatistics Scholarship ($2,800) - Tigermed (2024)
National Scholarship from Ministry of Education of China (top 0.2%)
First Prize in National College Student Mathematics Competition
Meritorious Winner (M Award) in Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)

Research Interests

Microbiome Data Analysis
Multi-omics Analysis
Single-cell Analysis
Spatial Transcriptomics

Recent News

June 2024: Awarded the inaugural Su Binghua Distinguished Biostatistics Scholarship
August 2024: ggpicrust2 reaches 46 citations
March 2024: ggpicrust2 surpasses 9,800 CRAN downloads
August 2023: Completed MicrobiomeStat package development
August 2023: ggpicrust2 paper published in Bioinformatics