Curriculum Vitae
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Education

Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics       2008*
Columbia University, New York, NY

Dissertation Title: Handling abbreviations in biomedical text
Advisor: Professor Carol Friedman
* Anticipated completion, May 2008

M.Phil in Biomedical Informatics       2007
Columbia University, New York, NY

M.S. in Computer and Information Science       2001
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

B.S. in Biochemistry       1998
Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R.China

Experience

2005 - Present: Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Graduate School of Art & Science, Columbia University, New York, NY

-Conducted multiple research projects related to natural language processing (NLP) of clinical notes
-Investigated multiple tasks on text mining of biomedical literature
-Explored new data mining technologies on healthcare data


2007 Summer: Internship
Medco Inc, Franklin Lakes, NJ

-Accessed public available text mining resources and integrated UMLS into a coding system of pharmacist data entry
-Worked on text mining tools to discover updated knowledge related to drug safety and build knowledge bases, such as drug usage database, using NLP technology
-Developed a proposal for setting up enterprise-wide ontology service


2001 - 2005: Chief Developer and Programmer/Researcher
Columbia University, New York, NY

-Chief developer/analyst, Statistical Analysis Center - Designed and implemented multiple web-based clinical trial data management systems, in charge of data quality control and reporting service for multiple clinical trials
-Programmer/Analyst, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics - Developed NLP-based systems to facilitate biological database curation by mining biomedical literature
-Researcher, Dept. of Anesthesiology - Studied signal pathway of renal cell apoptosis with renal ischemic-reperfusion injury


1999 - 2000: Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, NJ

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