CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Biostatistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024-2029 (expected)
• M.S. in Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022-2024
• B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Beijing Normal University, 2017-2021

Research Experience

• May 2023 - Present: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Research Assistant,Supervised by Ruoqing Zhu.
  • Joint Embedding of 10X Visium Data and Merfish Data with Regular Penalty.
• Sep 2023 - Present: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Student Researcher, Supervised by Lelys Bravo De Guenni.
  • Overcoming mosquito collections missing data and Convergence Cross Capping.
• Jan 2024 - April 2024: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Statistical Consultant, Supervisor by Jing Yang.
  • Correlation between m5C Modification and Phase Transition of mRNAs.

Work experience

• May 2021 - August 2021: Polytechnic Innovation (Beijing) Investment Management Co.Ltd, Beijing,China
  • Project Analyst Intern, Supervised by Yingying Dai.

Publications

• Smoothed Dimension Reduction in Spatial Transcriptomics Through Functional Embedding
  • Authors: Chengyu Du, Zirui Li, Boyi Guo, Ruoqing Zhu
  • Status: Manuscript in preparation

Honors&Rewards

• SPHHS Dean’s PhD Fellowship, 2024 - 2025

Software

• Spatially Smoothed Dimension Reduction(R package ssdr)
  • This package provides tools for smoothed dimension reduction in spatial transcriptomics through functional embedding.
  • Status: Will be submitted to CRAN in summer 2024.

Skills

• Typesetting and Publishing: LaTeX, Markdown
• Programming Languages: Python, R, C++
• Languages: Mandarin(Native), English(Fluent)