BIOMEDICINE,
STATISTICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE,
BRING TOGETHER.
PHD CANDIDATE, BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
MACHINE LEARNING/DATA SCIENCE ENTHUSIAST
HI, I'M YANRONG JI AND I GO BY JERRY. I'M CURRENTLY A BIOINFORMATICS PHD CANDIDATE IN THE LAB OF PROF. RAMANA DAVULURI AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY. MY RESEARCH DEALS WITH APPLYING MACHINE LEARNING/DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR DEVELOPING NOVEL BIOINFORMATIC TOOLS FOR STUDYING GENE REGULATION, IN PARTICULAR GENE ISOFORMS, IN DISEASES LIKE CANCER FOR PRECISION MEDICINE. I'M A FAN OF MOVIES, TV SERIES, BOARD GAMES, COOKING AND TRAVELING, AND I ENJOY AND APPRECIATE THE BEAUTY OF NATURE IN MANY WAYS.
01 PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
MY KNOWLEDGE LEVEL AS A BIOMEDICAL DATA SCIENTIST
BIOINFORMATICS
95%
PYTHON
95%
R
95%
LINUX
85%
SQL
80%
++C
65%
JAVA
60%
TENSORFLOW/KERAS
90%
PYTORCH
85%
SCIKIT-LEARN
90%
CARET
90%
HADOOP
75%
MAPREDUCE
75%
SPARK
80%
GIT
80%
AWS
85%
HPC/SLURM
75%
DOCKER
70%
02 PROJECTS
I HAVE WORKED ON >10 RESEARCH PROJECTS AND >5 SIDE PROJECTS DURING MY PHD. SEE MORE >
03 Experience
2020.09-2020.11
INSIGHT DATA SCIENCE
Health Data Science Fellow
Admitted to the prestigious 7-week Insight Health Data Science Fellowship program at Boston.
2019.01-2020.03
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Course Instructor and Teaching Assistant
Instructed on topics including machine learning in Bioinformatics, transcriptomics analysis and cancer subtyping; Coordinated semiweekly practical sessions on Bioinformatics workflows with diverse analysis tools and packages
2017.09-Present
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
PhD Research Assistant
Worked with Prof. Ramana Davuluri on developing novel bioinformatics tools using machine learning and deep learning for study of gene regulation and gene isoforms in cancer, and identification of genomics biomarkers and potential drug targets.
2016.09-2017.09
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
PhD Rotation Student
Worked on tissue-based differential transcriptome profiling over aging under perturbation of influenza virus in mice; disruption of JAK-STAT signaling pathway by human Schlafen 5 (SLFN5) protein in Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) cells; and top-down proteomic studies of Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype (SASP) in Oncogene-induced Senescence (OIS) model
2014.01-2016.05
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Undergraduate Researcher
Worked with Prof. Wei Xu on breast cancer, focused on regulation of ERβ activity by c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs) and related therapeutic uses, as well as purification of IL-13 and TSLP proteins. Also worked with Prof. Lingjun Li on mass spectrometry regarding characterization of crustacean neuropeptides, neurotoxicity of nanoparticles, and MALDI Imaging.
