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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

￭ Developed an information retrieval and extraction system for legal documents based on a fine-tuned BERT embedding and name-entity recognition models. ￭ Developed classification models for fraud detection in financial documents based on extracted text features. ￭ Implemented and evaluated state-of-the-art deep learning models (seq2seq with attention.

The Data Incubator is an 8-­week intensive training for transforming academic researchers into data scientists. I was selected as a Data Incubator Scholar among thousands applicants (2% acceptance rate). Major project summary: ￭ IT Skill Compass (capstone project): Collected web-scraped data from job postings(~19000) to analyze the current job demand.

Mississauga, ON, Canada

■ Teaching a B.Sc. level course focusing on empirical research (3 terms, more than 200 students)■ Developed lecture content and assignments for undergraduate students ■ Supervised and trained undergraduate students in a laboratory setting

Toronto, ON, Canada

■Performed cancer research on transgenic mouse models, including: Investigated the tumorigenic properties of Yap in Rb-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) Investigated the pro-survival function of polarity complex protein aPKC in tumors initiated by Rb pathway defects. ■ Supervised 2 graduate students to master experimental designs and analytic.

Worcester, MA, USA

■ Ph.D. thesis focused on a whole-genome RNAi screen to identify import factors of Smads, Independent proteomics study. Analyzed 1.6T image data. Employed visualization methods such as Z-score heat maps and scatter plots to facilitate the identification process (identified 1% hits from 320,000 images) ■ microRNA-seq analysis in renal fibrosis patients..

Education record

B.S., Life Sciences