I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University and a member of CS Bioinformatics Group led by Professor Luay Nakhleh. I am interested in developing computational tools and novel algorithms for answering biological questions from single-cell sequencing data. More specifically, I have been focused on mutation detection and evolutionary analysis of single-cell DNA sequencing data from cancer patients. Besides the DNA data, I have recently worked on the multi-omic analysis of cancer data.
As much as I am interested in sequencing technologies and the fast-growing data sets that they provide to us, I am fascinated by different computational techniques. My experience with modeling and algorithmic design includes a wide range of methods such as classic integer linear programming, hill-climbing, and maximum matching problem; to the deep learning methods such as generative adversarial networks, variational and classic auto-encoders, and recursive neural networks.