PhD, Computational and Data Sciences Social Work and Public Health Concentration Washington University in St. Louis
Experience
Connecting medicine, public health, social work, and artificial intelligence.
My interdisciplinary path spans academic research and teaching, clinical experience, healthcare investment, and applied AI.
Education
Academic training across medicine, public health, and computational data science.
Master of Public Health Epidemiology and Biostatistics Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelor of Medicine Basic Medical Sciences Fudan University
Academic Experience
Teaching and research at the intersection of AI, health, and social science.
Instructor, Mentored Teaching Experience, and Teaching Assistant
Washington University in St. Louis · St. Louis, MO
- S55/S90.MPH.5139 Applied Machine Learning Using Health DataInstructor
- S55/S90.MPH.5601 Applied Deep Learning Using Health DataInstructor
- Artificial Intelligence Applications for Health Data Advanced Learning CertificateMentored Teaching Experience
- Applied Machine Learning Using Health DataTeaching Assistant
Research Assistant
AI and LLMs in Health and Social Science · Washington University in St. Louis
- In Ryan Lindsay’s lab, I supported the development and applied use of Empathy Helper, an LLM-enabled simulated-client chatbot for social work education.
- In Ruopeng An’s research group, I developed end-to-end workflows for data curation, prompting, RAG, and evaluation and supported manuscript preparation and presentations.
- In Renee Thompson’s DYNAMIC Lab, I built transformer-based models to estimate momentary affect intensity from smartphone passive-sensing data.
Research Assistant, Division of Public Health Sciences
Clonal Hematopoiesis and Risk of Incident Lung Cancer · Washington University School of Medicine · Yin Cao’s Lab
- Prospectively examined the association between clonal hematopoiesis and subsequent risk of lung cancer.
Undergraduate Project Investigator, Department of Pathology
The Role of GSDME in Breast Cancer Multidrug Resistance · Fudan University · Xiuping Liu’s Lab
- Developed doxorubicin-, carboplatin-, and 5-FU-resistant MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell lines; quantified GSDME expression and pyroptosis using qPCR and Western blot.
Research Assistant, Department of Pathology
The Role and Mechanism of RacGAP1 Regulated Mitochondrial Quality Control in Breast Cancer Invasion and Metastasis · Fudan University · Xiuping Liu’s Lab
- Supported literature review and wet-lab assays including cell culture, lentiviral packaging, Western blot, PCR, gel electrophoresis, and RNA, DNA, and protein extraction.
Professional Experience
Applying technical and analytical expertise across AI, healthcare investment, and clinical settings.
AI/ML PhD Intern
O’Reilly Auto Parts · St. Louis, MO
- Optimized a multimodal visual search system on GCP Vertex AI using CLIP-based image–text embeddings, improving Top-K accuracy by approximately 20%.
- Designed a semantic-similarity evaluation pipeline achieving 0.90 F1 and 0.96 AUC on internal benchmark datasets.
Full-time Associate, Full-time Analyst, and Intern
DasCapital Overseas Limited · Shanghai, China
- Advised growth-stage medical enterprises on private placements; produced 100+ pitchbooks, 10 business plans, and 8 industry reports; supported 2021 transactions totaling more than $200M.
- Selected transactions included Nutshell Therapeutics (Series A/A+), CommBio Therapeutics (Corporate Round/Pre-A), Sciwind Biosciences (Series C), Holosensor Medical (Pre-A+), and Forqaly Medical (Series B).
Undergraduate Intern
Jingan District Central Hospital of Shanghai · Shanghai, China
- Rotated through obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and pediatrics in inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Assisted with surgical procedures, perioperative coordination, patient communication, documentation, and discharge summaries.