About me

A brief history of me

2021: Proud to become a new mom!
2020: I decided that I would like to transition into computer science, and I started my Master's degree in the Align program at Northeastern University
2018: I started working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Postdoc Research Associate, research on the fate and transport of actinide in natural water
2017: I graduated from Washington University in St.Louis with Graduate Student Award of American Chemistry Society
2013: I came to US and started my PhD study in Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St.Louis
2007: I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

As an SDE

I had some experience with building predictive models. Those experience taught me important skills to learn on my own and persist through obstacles, but more importantly, I found that I really love the problem solving process of designing, building, and iterate. That was when I started to explore computer science and started my Master's degree at Northeastern University. The Align program at NEU is specifically designed for non-computer science background students, which allows me to acquire systematic training in computer science.

This is where I am at, and I really look forward to exploring a lot of of computer science, and seeing where my future holds.

As an Chemical Environmental Engineer

My interests of programming and data analysis starts from my Ph.D. study at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL). My research work at WUSTL has focused on natural water and engineering water systems, where complicated biogeochemical processes occurred. In order to understand the underlying mechanisms, different numerical models were used to analyze large sets of water quality data. Since I did not have much experience of numerical modeling before, I had to learn how to write code and establish models to analyze the data all by myself. The more I learned, the more important I realized programming and data analysis were. Moreover, as the chemical process became more complicated, I found that directly applying some existing algorithms could not fulfil my specific requirements. Desires of developing my own algorithms and building a real-time monitor platform for water quality has encouraged me to seek more knowledge in computer science.