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Work

  • 2023.12 - Present
    Postdoctoral Fellow & Researcher
    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)

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