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Graduation, UW Biotechnology Center, May 2021
![RoheLab_March_2020](images/march'20_1.jpeg)
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RoheLab, Front of Statistics Department, March 2020
![Ye Farewell Party](images/ye_farewell.jpeg)
We threw Ye a surprise party, and it was a big success, Oct 2019.
![Statistics Family, UW-Madison, Mid-Autumn Festival 2019](images/2019_BBQ1.jpg)
Statistics family, Penn Park, Mid-Autumn Festival 2019
![Statistics Family, UW-Madison, Mid-Autumn Festival 2018](images/2018_BBQ1.jpg)
Statistics family, Burrows Park, Mid-Autumn Festival 2018
![Farewell Rene and Kailei](images/farewellReneKailei.jpeg)
Congratulations to Rene's and Kailei's graduation, August, 2018
(Left) Ye, Pixu, Daniel, Chenyang, Nadya, Rene,
Cony, Kailei, Sunduz, Peng, Fan (right)
![The Pioneer Courthouse, Portland, Summer 2018](images/portland.jpg)
The Pioneer Courthouse, Portland, Summer 2018
![Karl's Group, Spring '18](images/karlgroup2018.jpg)
Karl's Group, Spring '18
(Left) Emma, Yilin, Muzhe, Fan, Yini, Karl (right)
![Hands-on Alligator, Everglades National Park](images/alligator.jpg)
Hands-on alligator, Everglades National Park, Florida '18
![Statistics Family, UW-Madison, Mid-Autumn Festival 2017](images/Statistics Family, UW-Madison, Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 (1).jpg)
UW-Madison Statistics Family, Burrows Park, Mid-Autumn Festival 2017
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Young statisticians, Burrows Park, Mid-Autumn Festival 2017
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Group meeting, summer 2017
(Left) Karl, Fan, Yilin, Yulin, Muzhe, Song (right)
![capital_madison_july2017](images/capital_madison_july2017.jpg)
Capital Madison at dusk, July 2017
![PixuBabyShower_2017](images/PixuBabyShower.jpg)
Pixu's baby shower, BioTech, May 2017
(Left) Rene, Ye, Sunyoung, Cony, Anru (new Dad),
Pixu (new Mom),
Sunduz, Yury, Duy, Fan, Kylie (right)
![Statistics Family, UW-Madison, Mid-Autumn Festival 2016](images/Statistics Family, UW-Madison, Mid-Autumn Festival 2016.jpg)
Statistics Family, UW-Madison, Mid-Autumn Festival 2016
![Lake Mendota, UW-Madison Daytime](images/Lake Mendota, UW-Madison Daytime.jpg)
![Lake Mendota, UW-Madison Dusk](images/Lake Mendota, UW-Madison Dusk.jpg)
Lake Mendota, Daytime vs. Dust
![UW-Madison Campus](images/UW-Madison Campus.jpg)
UW-Madison Campus, Summer 2016
![ZJUer@CSST2015](images/ZJUer@CSST2015.jpg)
ZJUers @ CSST 2015
(Left) Yuqing, Lifeng, Ziming, Liujia, Yandi, Fan, Kuan,
Shun, Yingzhu, Rita, Yubin, Xin, Peng (right), Zhe (bottom)
![Thapae Gate - Thailand](images/ThapaeGate@2016.jpg)
![Thapae Gate - Thailand](images/Thapae Gate@2016.jpg)
Thapae Gate, Thailand, 2016
News
2021
Jun. I will join Google (in NYC) as a Data Scientist.
May. I successfully defended my dissertation!
-- Spectral methods for social media data analysis.
[dissertation]
2020
Aug. I gave a talk at Google's Statistics Journal Club.
-- Finding the sparse signals/components in data. [slides]
Aug. I gave a talk (contributed paper) at JSM 2020.
-- "SURF: Integrate analysis of RNA-seq and CLIP-seq data." [video]
Jun. Hooray! I passed my preliminary exam---one step closer to PhD. [slides]
May. New paper accepted at Genome Biology.
[bioRxiv]
[journal]
-- Chen, Fan, et al. "SURF: integrative analysis of a compendium of RNA-seq and CLIP-seq datasets highlights complex governing of alternative transcriptional regulation by RNA-binding proteins."
Feb. Another working manuscript of mine has been selected for the 2020 ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Distinguished Student Paper Award! [annocement]
Jan. A working manuscript has been selected to receive an Honorable Mention in the Statistical Learning and Data Science Student Paper Award competition.
-- "A new basis for sparse PCA."
2019
Dec. I earned my M.S. degree in Computer Sciences. This is a milestone.
Oct. New paper accepted at Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology)!
-- Chen, Fan, et al. "Targeted sampling from massive block model graphs with personalized PageRank."
[paper]
[journal]
May. Great Lakes Bioinformatics (GLBIO 2019) - International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
-- "Integrate RNA-seq and eCLIP-seq with SURF for mining regulation functions of RNA binding proteins." [slides]
Mar. New paper accepted at Nature Methods!
-- Preston, Melanie A., et al. "Unbiased screen of RNA tailing activities reveals a poly(UG) polymerase." [paper]
2018
Jul. Summer School on Fundamentals of Data Analysis (TRIPODS 2018), Madison, USA.
Jul. I will attend the 2018 SIAM Annal Meeting (AN18) MS125 and the Workshop on Network Science (NS18), Portland, USA.
-- Chen, F., Zhang, Y., Rohe, K. (2018). Personalized PageRank, local clustering, and the Stochastic Blockmodel. [slides] [poster]
May. Hangzhou International Conference on Frontiers of Data Science (website), Hangzhou, China.
Jan. I joined Rohe Lab and continued working on community detection.
2017
Sep. I passed the PhD Qualifying Exam!
Jul. I will attend the Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG) at the University of Washington, Seattle. Three modules are hosted by Timothy Thornton, Kari North, and Ali Shojaie.
2016
Sep. I become a research assistant in Keles' research group. My work will involve modeling RNA binding proteins (RBPs) and related High-Throughput sequencing data analysis.
Jun. My dissertation, advised by Prof. Liu, is awarded as the Best Diss. of the year.
-- Chen, F. (2016). Mathematical modelling on battery systems. (in Chinese) [thesis]
Mar. In the coming five months, I will be a business intelligence intern at Didi, Hangzhou.
2015
Nov. Our project, part of the Student Research Training Program (SRTP), was awarded the First class, Hangzhou, China.
-- Chen, F., Li, X. (2015). The influence factors in complex reply networks. [slides]
Jul. I am in the UCLA Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology (CSST) program, Los Angeles. I will work on community detection with Professor Arash Amini in the coming months.
-- Chen, F., Amini, A. (2015). Variational EM approaches for Stochastic Block Model with covariates. [poster]
Feb. Our team is awarded Outstanding Winner in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM).
2014
Sep. I set up a team named BINGO, of ZJU, to participate in the Contemporary Undergrad Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), China. We win the First Prize!
2013
Aug. I will be a voluntary teacher of Math in Yongpin No.2 high school, Dali, Yunnan Province. We are affiliated with West Region Attached Association (WRAA).
2012
Sep. I am honored to join the Shing-Tung Yau Elite Program of Mathematics, affiliated with Center of Mathematical Sciences (CMS), Zhejiang University.
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