Education:

• Fuzzy Logic Data Mining & Machine Learning          2002-2006
  Degree: Doctor of Philosophy,
  Department of Engineering Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
  
• Information Systems         2001 - 2002
  Degree: Master of Science with Distinction,
  Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  
• Industrial Foreign Trade        1994 - 1998
  Degree: Bachelor of Engineering
  Business School, Central South University, ChangSha City, HuNan Province, China.

Work Experience:

• Research Programer, Centre for Computational Evolution, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand         since 2009
  Responsibilities: developing software and pipelines, such as LPhy, Tracer, BEAST 2, and building phylogenetic trees for various types of data, including viral genome (e.g., COVID), cancer single-cell sequencing data, human genome, and more.
  


• Application Support Consultant, Orderware Solution Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand         2009 - 2009
  Responsibilities: providing IT solution for business customers.
  


• Software Engineer, Integration Engineering Team, Peace Software, Auckland, New Zealand         2008 - 2008
  Responsibilities: maintaining the business framework “Market Solution” using Java, XML, XSLT, Drools, JSP, Struts, process tracking and workflow.
  


• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand        2006 - 2008
  Responsibilities: developing an object-oriented knowledge framework for modelling human mastication.
  


• Research Programer, British Telecom and University of Bristol, United Kingdom        2005 - 2006
  Responsibilities: developing a component of the fuzzy logic sematic network in the ePerSpace project (audiovisual value-added networked systems).
  


• Research Programer, Artigence Ltd., Bristol, United Kingdom        2003 - 2005
  Responsibilities: developing Intelligent SQL/Fril Interrogator and Fuzzy Logic Machine Learning toolkit for a business intelligence system.
  


• ICT Technician, China Great Wall Aluminum Corporation Cement Plant, China         Jul 1998 - Jul 2001
  Responsibilities:maintaining various industrial computers, network, telecom system, databases, website.
  

Software & System Contributions:

• LPhy
• Tracer
• BEAST 2
• eDNA data pipeline
• Scholar Relational Network
• BEAST 1
• New Zealand Genomic Observatory Database
• ePerSpace, BT Group, United Kingdom, 2005 - 2006
• Intelligent SQL/Fril Interrogator and Fuzzy Logic Machine Learning Toolkit, Artigence Ltd, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2005

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Relevant Skills:

1. Systems: Unix, Linux, Mac OS, Windows, DOS, Netware.
   
2. Languages: Java (master), J2EE, R, Python, Groovy, MPS, C, C++, C#, VB, SQL, CORBA, Ant, Fril, Prolog, CLIPS.
   
3. Database: Oracle, MySQL, Access, MS SQL, FoxPro, JDBC, Hibernate, ER diagram, Data Warehouse.
   
4. Web: HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, Grails, LAMP, SOA, Struts, JSP, Weblogic, HTTP.
   
5. Software Engineering: OO design, UML, Design Patterns, MVC, Version Control, Testing.
   
6. Tools: Geneious, BEAST, UPARSE, QIIME, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Matlab, Maple, SPSS, SAS, Rational, SAP R3, MS Office, Drools.
   
7. Other Skills & Knowledge: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Bayesian Phylogenetics, eDNA, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Knowledge-based Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Logic Programming, Semantic Modelling, Audio/Text Mining, Cloud, HPC, System Integration, Business Intelligence, E-commerce, Statistical Modelling.