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San Francisco Bay Area

Foster City, California, United States

 Involved in multiple research projects and leaded one myself to increase unique protein groups detected by our technology, focus on protein depletion methods and protein adsorption behaviors Work in product development and optimization, solve issues like TIC failures and MS clogging caused by our assay for sample preparation Leaded one commercial.

Berkeley, California, United States

 Project: Engineering novel hyaluronic acid hydrogels for cell delivery Conducted literature review and wrote a review paper to summarize advances in HA (hyaluronic acid) hydrogels as a delivery vehicle with optimized structures and modifications Analyzed the drug delivery industry and patent landscape of HA hydrogels and wrote a business report .

United States

 Conducted several different projects studying different receptors and neurotoxicity which can be important inunderstanding neuronal diseases, did molecular analysis as well as animal experiments Involved in lab maintenance, managed lab supplies, trained new undergraduate students

Qingdao, Shandong, China

 Supervised students for self-study, gave classes to students including both SAT and SAT subject test, madedaily quizzes, marked homework and quizzes, wrote daily feedbacks to parents Designed and made various posters for advertisement

Qingdao, Shandong, China

 Detected AIDS from the blood sample, ran ELISA to detect HIV antibodies Learned how to interpret the data, studied other basic tests for detecting HIV, studied the diagnosisalgorithm for various viruses Collected and analyzed data with my supervisor, helped with biohazard waste disposal

Master'S Degree, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cell Biology, Gpa 3.74

High School Diploma