Haowen

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I earned my B.S. in mathematics, as well as my M.S. in applied mathematics, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My work at RPI was primarily in mathematical modeling and simulation, developing computational approaches to study biological phenomena and systems. Currently, I'm a Ph.D. student in the interdisciplinary program of computational biology and bioinformatics, supervised by Dr. Peng Qiu and Dr. Todd Streelman.

My current research interests are in mathematical modeling for data science applications in single-cell genomics. My work pursues (i) developing scalable analytics pipelines for automated analyses of single-cell multiome datasets to enhance the accessibility of large-scale NGS data to both biology researchers and general users for drawing biological insights, and (ii) use omics technologies to investigate the cellular and molecular basis of recently-evolved social behavior in cichlid fishes, linking behavior-associated genomic variation to specific brain cell types and their functions.