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Work

  • 2023.12 - Present
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
    • Developed a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot with Python, open-source LLMs, Streamlit, and databases, cutting nurses' manual incident-report review time
    • Designed and prepared curriculum for a health data and AI course by sourcing datasets, creating syllabus, and managing lab environments
    • Mentoring 3 master's students performing unsuperivsed learning to discover signs of sepsis
  • 2019.03 - 2023.12
    Ph.D. Candidate, Researcher, & Scientific Assistant
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
    • Curated an annotated text dataset and developed a catheter-related infection ontology with clinicians using Python and SPARQL
    • Published 5 peer-reviewed papers and presented at 3 international conferences/workshops
    • Managed a team of 6 research assistants for data de-identification, management, and annotation
    • Mentored 3 master's students developing natrual language processing pipelines to detect and classify catheter-related infections
    • Designed and taught a health data analysis course to 28 clinicians and IT professionals
  • 2017.04 - 2019.03
    Research Associate & Bioinformatician
    Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
    • Automated a genomic analysis pipeline in Bash and R on a SLURM cloud cluster, replacing manual sample classification and ensuring reproducibility
    • Built an interactive HTML quality control report for rapid summarization, quality checks, and outlier detection of large genomic datasets
    • Updated the variant gene disease catalog in the Macaque Genotype and Phenotype database to aid disease model and translational research

Education

Projects

Skills

Programming
Python
Bash
Java
C++
C
Database and query languages
SPARQL
PostgreSQL
SQL
Neo4j
Cypher
Statistical Analysis
R
STATA
Cloud Computing
NTNU's HUNT Cloud
OHSU's HPC cluster
Tools
Protégé
Streamlit
Docker
Git
SLURM
Languages
English (native)
Mandarin (intermediate)
Norwegian (basic)
Taiwanese (basic)
Japanese (basic)

Volunteer

Interests

Exercise
Parkrun
Walking
Running
Weightlifting
Creative pursuits
Digital illustration
Crochet