"What you can not create, you can not understand.", Richard Feynman

Professional Preparation

  1. Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
    May 2010 (expected), Duke University

  2. Master of Science in High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems
    2002, Singapore-MIT Alliance

  3. Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)
    2001, National University of Singapore

Appointments

  1. Research Associate
    2002-2004, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore

  2. Research Intern
    Jan 2002-June 2002, Temasek Laboratories, Singapore

  3. Engineer Intern
    Jan 2000-June 2000, Sinotech, Taiwan

Hands-on Experience

  1. Wet-bench
    DNA purification and isolation, DNA transformation, bacterial cloning, gel electrophoresis, polymerase chain reaction, DNA sequencing, fluoresence microscopy.

  2. Computer(Advanced)
    C/C++, Fortran, MPI, Visual Basic, Matlab

  3. Computer(Intermediate)
    Java, Mathematica, Unix

Awards

  1. Medtronic Fellowship, Jan 2009 - June 2009

  2. q-bio Conference Travel Award, 2009

  3. BioBricks Foundation SB 4.0 Travel Award, 2008

  4. Singapore-MIT Alliance Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2002

  5. Kuok Foundation Awards, 1997-2001

  6. NUS Engineering Colors Award, Bronze Medal,1999

References

  • Mike West
    Arts & Sciences Professor of Statistics & Decision Sciences and Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University.
    mike at isds.duke.edu

  • Lingchong You
    Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University.
    you at duke.edu

  • Guna Rajagopal
    Executive Director, Bioinformatics, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

  • Pawan Dhar
    Senior Scientist, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan.
    pkdhar at gsc.riken.jp