Fish Biodiversity Assessment with Environmental DNA- Investigated fish biodiversity via environmental DNA and NGS to monitor endangered and invasive species resulting in 1 first-author and 4 co-author papers published in scientific journals- Species assignment optimization: applied data mining algorithms (including Decision Tree, Naïve Bayes, and Sequential Minimal Optimization) to fast and accurately identify fish species- Developed bioinformatics pipelines to improve assembly and annotation for mixed mitochondrial genomes- Built bioinformatics pipelines to analyze batch metagenetic samples in parallel (>200 samples) based on Sun Grid EngineInsect Oxidative Phosphorylation Evolution Study with RNA-seq- Studied functional gene evolution in large-scale of insect lineages across 4 insect orders using RNA-seq with 1 first author paper and 1 co-author paper published in scientific journals- Performed assembly, annotation, variant calling, testing gene family evolutionary rate, gene family expansion and contraction analysis- Collaborated with corporate partner, BGI, on the 1000 Insect Transcriptome Evolution project

- Developed a PCR-independent approach that reduced the false positive rate of metabarcoding- Built bioinformatics pipeline to assemble and annotation mitochondrial genomes

- Investigated gut microbiome difference between premature and fullterm infants using metagenomics and qPCR- Developed bioinformatics pipeline for 16S rRNA gene analysis