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Summary of Qualifications Biostatistics master from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health with strong statistical technical background, biological /pharmaceutical understanding, oral/written communication skills, collaboration and leadership spirits: * Strong team spirits: mentored and communicated well with 5 undergraduates worked independently and collaborated effectively with or under guidance of senior researchers * Strong understanding of statistical theory and methods: 1-year of statistical methods and probability course * Practical experience with experimental plan and statistical analysis * Broad and thorough statistical programming experience: R, Stata, SAS * Strong oral and written communication skills: drafted and published a first-author paper and a poster presentation award Functional Genomics/Discovery oncology Genentech Summer Intern June 2015 - Aug 2015 * Collaborated with senior scientific researchers and biostatisticians to discover new components of the necroptosis pathway utilizing genome-wide CRISPR screen * Participated in pre-clinical genomic experimental design and performed the experiments My contribution is considered as a major step forward for the functional genomics platform which is recognized as a certificate from Genentech Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) (Dr. DJ Pan lab) Research assistant May 2011 - May 2016 * Led project and collaborated with postdocs in lab to discover novel therapeutic targets for the cancer signaling Hippo pathway using Drosophila genetic screen and cell-based RNAi screen * Characterized a novel epigenetic regulator of the Hippo pathway