About me

I am a scientist at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit (CEU) and also Cambridge Cardiovascular, following positions at MRC Epidemiology Unit (people), University College London, King's College London, research portal), Harvard University and Ministry of Health, China. I have a PhD in Genetics (King's College London), master's (Fudan University) and bachelor's (Shandong University) degrees in Medicine. I am Fushan No 1 Middle School and Dong Huang Shan Primary School alumni.

Work

My field is statistics, epidemiology and public heatlth with specific interest in genetic analysis of complex traits especially Omics-Analysis. I am working with the SCALLOP consortium following Whitehall II, ELSA, EPIC-Norfolk, Fenland, InterAct, NSHD and Framingham. The EPIC-Norfolk genomewide association study contributed to consortia such as GIANT and CHARGE therefore myself as a highly cited researcher. I am a member of the Royal Statistical Society and here are my brief CV and ResearchGate profile. I finished my term as associate editor for The Scientific World Journal in July 2017 and I am currently an assoficate editor editor for Frontiers in Genetics (blog network and profile) after ten years as a review editor.

Reproducible research

I promoted reproducible research through presentations at useR!2007, useR!2008, useR!2009, useR!2010, useR!2011, GWAS course, Henry-Stewart and local talks as with software collections. I collected bookmarks (PHPC, suggested sites, MRC with comments, UCL with comments and KCL with comments and a diagram--a mermaid version), created DSA, Numerical Analysis, Computational Statistics, physalia, software notes, Omics resources, as well as developed software (esp. Haplotype Analysis, R including pQTLtools) on GitHub and CRAN. At CEU, I am part of the cambridge-ceu GitHub organisation.

Date last changed 19/9/2025