Curriculum Vitae
Education & Positions
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University
January 2025 – Present
Advisor: Jonathan Pritchard
Ph.D. in Computational Biology
University of California, Berkeley
December 2024
Advisors: Rasmus Nielsen and Yun S. Song
B.S. in Biological Sciences and Mathematics
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
June 2019
Advisors: Dexing Zhang and Yong Zhang
Awards and Honors
- James Crow Award Finalist, Genetics Society of America, 2026
- Stanford Bio-X Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2027
- Stanford School of Medicine Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2026
- Stanford Center for Evolutionary and Human Genetics Fellowship, 2025
- UC Berkeley Conference Travel Grant, 2022
- UCAS Outstanding Thesis Award, 2019
- Chinese National Scholarship (top 1%), 2018, 2019
- UCAS First Class Scholarship (top 5%), 2017, 2018, 2019
Publications
See my Publications page for preprints and published work.
Oral Presentations
- Population, Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics, June 2026
- Society of Molecular Biology & Evolution, July 2024
- The Allied Genetics Conference, March 2024
- Bay Area Population Genetics Symposium, December 2023
- Bay Area Population Genetics Symposium, June 2023
- Society of Molecular Biology & Evolution Everywhere, September 2022
- Evolution, June 2022
Academic Leadership & Service
- Organizing Committee, Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics, March 2026
- Invited Speaker, Stanford CEHG Annual Symposium, March 2026
- Invited Speaker, UC Davis Center for Population Biology Seminar, January 2026
- Invited Speaker, ARGEvol Conference/Workshop, November 2025
- Invited Speaker, Young Talent’s Evolution Biology Forum, October 2025
- Organizer, Tskit Meetings, October 2025 – Present
- Invited Speaker, Light of Evolution–Academic Cloud Forum, September 2025
- Symposium Chair, Society of Molecular Biology & Evolution, July 2025
- Invited Speaker, phyloseminar.org, October 2024
- Invited Speaker, Tskit Meetings, January 2024
- Organizer, Bay Area Population Genetics Symposium, October 2022
- Organizer, Center for Theoretical and Evolutionary Genetics Seminar, September 2020 – May 2021
- Organizer, UC Berkeley Population Genetics Journal Club, September 2020 – May 2021
- Organizer, UC Berkeley Center for Computational Biology Seminar, September 2020 – May 2021
Teaching
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley
STAT 135: Concepts of Statistics, August – December 2020
Mentorship & Advising
- Leyan Wang, Dec 2023 – Present. Now graduate student at UCLA.
- Ziye Wang, July 2025 – Dec 2025. Now graduate student at UC Berkeley.
- Dasheng Bi, Sep 2020 – May 2021. Now graduate student at UC Berkeley.