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Hire Dr. Xin D.

United States

Profile Summary

Research Interests: - Bioinformatics and Data Analysis of genomics, - Computational Biology using System Biology approach, - Computational modeling of metabolic or regulatory networks, - Computational drug screening for cancer and Neurodegerative diseases. Projects: - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Biotechnology Group, Dept. of Forestry, NCSU, processed and analyzed RNA-seq data using TopHat, Bamtool, Supervised Predicted Classification, Gene Cluster, R. - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the School of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, analyzed survival data, and made prognosis predictions on liver metastasis data from colon cancer patients, using Significance Analysis of Microarray, Prediction Analysis for Microarray (class prediction, and survival analysis for genomic expression, data mining), Supervised Prediction Classification, Gene Cluster, R. - Research Assistant at Dept, of Cell and Developmental Biology, the School of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Developed novel coarse-grained method and algorithm for Modeling Signal Transduction Network with System Biology approach, using the Hill funtion to formulate ordinary differential equations and Markov Chain Monte Carlo method for parameter selection. Modeled PITP Signal Transduction Network, made predictions of network structures and PITP knockout, and simulated over-expressed oncogenes (Ras, PI3K) and under-expressed tumor suppressor (PTEN). Professional experiences: - Experience in system software development, product management and marketing; expertise on design, development and maintenance of embedded system software for voice and data, signaling processing, mobile handset; solid background in the technology of telecommunications, exceptional trouble shooting, training and documentation skills. - C, C++, SAS, R, Matlab, Pearl, Python, Assembly, Ada, Pascal, SQL, Lisp, Clips, UNIX,

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Microarrays
• ☆ RNA Sequencing
• ☆ Cell Signaling Pathways
• ☆ Software Engineering
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Cluster Analysis
• ☆ Data Mining
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Systems Biology
• ☆ Embedded Systems

Services

• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

North Carolina State University

January 2012 - January 2013

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of North Carolina

May 2011 - July 2011

Research Assistant

University of North Carolina

May 2008 - August 2010

Senior Software Engineer

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications

July 2000 - December 2002

Senior Software Engineer

Nortel Network

August 1998 - July 2000

GSM Product Manager

Nortel Networks Ltd

October 1997 - August 1998

Senior Software Engineer

Nortel Networks Ltd

August 1996 - October 1997

Senior Software Engineer

Siemens Communications

August 1993 - August 1996

Education

PhD in Quantitative Genetics (Animal Science)

North Carolina State University

July 2007 - August 2010

Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) (Computer Science)

Florida Atlantic University

August 1987 - December 1990

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.