Zhao Li

Zhao Li

400 Bizzell Street, College Station, TX 77843

EDUCATION

Tianjin University Tianjin, China

Master of Computer Science (Rank: 1/120) 09, 2014 - 01, 2017

Inner Mongolia University Hohhot, China

Bachelor, Software Engineering (Rank: 9/110) 09, 2010 - 06, 2014

Peking University Beijing, China

Student Exchange Program 08, 2012 - 02, 2013

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Drug repositioning by gene expression signature comparison; database and web service design and construction; apply Machine Learning algorithms on biological problems.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Associate 02, 2017 - Present

Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering & TEES-AgriLife Center for

Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University

Designed and developed new algorithms and computational pipeline for LINCS L1000 data.
Drug repositioning for Brown adipose tissue activation using gene expression signature comparison.
Designed and developed curation software for GEO Metadata Curation.

Master's Researcher 09, 2014 - 01, 2017

Computational Biology Institute, Tianjin University

Design an affinity-based computational approach for identifying 14-3-3 Proteins and peptide binding specificity.
Designed and developed a peptide binding prediction approach for HLA-DR molecular based on sequence and structural information.

Biology Database Developer (part time) 12, 2014 - 10, 2015

Key Laboratory of System Biology, Tianjin University

Designed and developed synthetic biology module database(www.synbioml.org)
ata integration from public biology databases(KEGG, Uniprot et al.).

PUBLICATIONS

Li, Z., Li, J., & Yu, P. (2017). l1kdeconv: an R package for peak calling analysis with LINCS L1000 data. BMC bioinformatics, 18(1), 356.
Li, Z., Tang, J., & Guo, F. (2016). Learning from real imbalanced data of 14-3-3 proteins binding specificity. Neurocomputing, 217, 83-91.
Li, Z., Tang, J., & Guo, F. (2016). Identification of 14-3-3 proteins phosphopeptide-binding specificity using an affinity-based computational approach. PloS one, 11(2), e0147467.
Li, Z., Zhao, Y., Pan, G., Tang, J., & Guo, F. (2016). A Novel Peptide Binding Prediction Approach for HLA-DR Molecule Based on Sequence and Structural Information. BioMed research international, 2016.
Guo F, Ding Y, Li Z, et al. Identification of Protein-Protein Interaction via Detecting Correlated Mutation on Interface. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2015, 55(9),2042-2049

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bioinformatics Analyst (Internship) 07, 2016 - 12, 2016

Cipher Gene LLC

Participated the development of the management system of Whole-exome sequencing(WES).
Participated in Whole-exome sequencing(WES) analysis.

Big Data Analyst (Internship) 01, 2016 - 06, 2016

YuanTiKu LLC

Analysis big data using Hive, Pig, Spark.
Developed and maintained data warehouse.

SKILLS& INTERESTS

Programming languages and mathematical packages: Java, R, Python, C ++
Language Skills: Chinese, English
Interests: Running (attended multiple marathon events) and swimming.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Graduate National Scholarship (The highest honor for graduate students in China) 2016
First prize of University, postgraduate excellent 2015
Awarded with "TianJin University Modal Student" 2015
Prize Of WEICHAI Corporation 2015
Second Prize of Innovation Fund of Inner Mongolia 2014