I was born in Beijing, China fifteen minutes after my twin
sister, thanks to whom i never felt lonely in my
entire childhood unlike most of my peers. After
graduating from Beijing No.8 Middle School I chose
to study biochemistry at Beijing Normal University and
received my B.S. degree in July, 1997. I then
worked shortly at National Research Institute for
Family Planning. In 1998 I moved to the U.S. to
continue my study in biochemistry and molecular
biology at Wright State University, Dayton,
Ohio, where I worked in Dr. Turchi's lab. I completed my
M.S. thesis "The effect of Cisplatin on Ku loading
to DNA" in the year 2000. Since then my research
interest had switched to computational
biology. That fall I joined the graduate program
in Biostatistics at UC Berkeley, and worked with
Professor Terry Speed on the Pritzker Project. My research
focused on identifying genes that are associated with
bipolar disorder and major depression, using
Microarray data obtained from post-motem human brains.
I received my Ph.D. degree in Biostatistics in Fall,
2006.
I currently work as a biostatistician at Gilead Science, Inc. on phase III
clinical trials. Our goal is to advance therapeutics
against life-threatening diseases worldwide.
I like sports in general. My favorites include hiking,
badminton and ping-pong. I also very much enjoy traveling,
which gives me the chance to appreciate wonders of Nature
and the many differences in human cultures. In 2006 I
met a person who cheerfully enjoys 75% of my hobbies. His
name is Fang Wu.