Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (Summa cum Laude). University of Goettingen, Germany
Areas of Expertise
Big-data based infrastructure and software development, algorithm design
Molecular epidemiology of human pathogens, especially HIV, influenza, and HCV
Virus vaccine design
Molecular immunology
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
CDC ORISE Fellow
CROI Young Investigator Award
Charles C. Shepard Award nomination/CDC
Keystone Symposium HIV Research Fellowship
CNLS Postdoctoral Fellowship
“Mathematics, Evolution and Development” advisory board, Max-Planck Institute of Computational Biology/Shanghai, etc.
NIH and NSF review panelist
ASPPH Fellow Review panelist
UGA Career Development Recognition, etc.
Editorial board: BMC Infectious Diseases, BMC Ecology and Evolution, PLoS
Guest Associate editor: Frontiers in Medicine
Associate Editor: Frontiers in Virology issue Bioinformatic and Predictive Virology, etc.
Mentor of students research awards at various levels (department, college, UGA, and national/UGA)
Affiliations
UGA Faculty of Infectious Disease
UGA Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute
UGA IDEAS program
UGA African Studies Institute
Course Instruction
PhD Epidemiology program core course – Cohort Design and Analysis
PhD Epidemiology program selective course – Molecular Epidemiology
Undergraduate public health core course – Introduction to Epidemiology