David Wang

Email: abp2aa@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** ********* *****

City: Rockville

State: MD

Zip: 20852

Country: USA

Phone: 301-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $80,000

Willing to Relocate

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Resume of Xiaosheng Wang

Current Occupation:

Visiting Scientist, Biometric Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A

Contact Information:

Address: Room 8149, 6130 Executive Plaza, Rockville, MD 20852

Email: abp2aa@r.postjobfree.com; abp2aa@r.postjobfree.com

Tel: 301-***-****

Education:

Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Ph.D. Computational Biology, March 2010 (Thesis advisor: Osamu Gotoh)

Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

M.S. Information System Science and Engineering, July 2005

Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China

B.A. Medicine, July 1995

Professional Experience:

Postdoctoral Researcher. Biometric Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A

May 2010 - present (Supervisor: Richard Simon)

Assistant Professor. Computer Engineering School, Jimei University, Xiamen, China

August 2005 - September 2007

Clinician. Xiamen Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen, China

August 1995 - August 2002

Selected Professional Activities:

Member, Japanese Sociality for Bioinformatics (JSBi)

Member, editorial board of American Journal of Cancer Science

Guest Editor, OMICS Journal of Human Genetics & Embryology

Host Editor for research topics, Journal of Frontiers in Genetics

Reviewer for professional journals:

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

BMC Bioinformatics

BMC Cancer

BMC Medical Genomics

Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Journal of Cancer Research and Treatment

Chinese Journal of Cancer

Honors and Awards:

American National Cancer Institute Research Fellowship, May 2010 - present.

Japanese Government Scholarship, October 2007 - March 2010.

Chinese Jimei University Science Foundation, July 2006 - June 2008.

Computing Skills:

Programming languages: proficient with R and C, experience with Matlab, Perl, Python and Ruby.

Experience with Linux and Windows OS.

Experience with Oracle and SQL Database.

Experience with web-tools development.

Experience with high-performance computing.

Languages:

Proficient with English, Japanese and Chinese.

Research Interests:

Analysis of genomic data; development of software for genomic analysis; development of predictive biomarkers for cancer; systems and computational biology for elucidating the nature of oncogenesis; inference of molecular interaction networks for cancerous biology; development of algorithms for data mining, machine learning and graph theory.

Presentations and Lectures:

1. Cancer Classification Using Single Genes. Oral presentation at the 20th International Conference on Genome Informatics, Yokohama, Japan, December 2009.

2. Microarray-Based Cancer Classification with Simple Models. Poster presentation at the 8th International Workshop on Advanced Genomics Expansion of Genome Science, Tokyo, Japan, June 16-18, 2009.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Wang X. Identification of Marker genes for Cancer Based on Microarrays Using a Computational Biology Approach. Current Bioinformatics, in press.

2. Wang X. Discovering molecular associations between ageing, stem cell, and cancer based on gene expression profiling. Chinese Journal of Cancer, in press.

3. Wang X. Microarray Analysis of Ageing-related Signatures and Their Expression in Tumors based on Computational Biology Approach. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics 2012, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gpb.2012.01.001.

4. Wang X. Identification of Common Tumor Signatures based on Gene Set Enrichment Analysis. In Silico Biology 11 (2011/2012) 1-10, doi:10.3233/ISB-2012-0440.

5. Wang X. Robust Two-gene Classifiers for Cancer Prediction. Genomics 2012, 99(2): 90-95, doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2011.11.003

6. Wang X. Computational Analysis of Expression of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-associated Signatures in Tumors. BMC Research Notes 2011, 4:471. Highly accessed.

7. Wang X and Simon R. Microarray-based Cancer Prediction Using Single Genes. BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:391. Highly accessed.

8. Wang X and Gotoh O. Inference of Cancer-specific Gene Regulatory Networks Using Soft Computing Rules. Gene Reg. Sys. Biol. 2010, 4:19-34.

9. Wang X and Gotoh O. A Robust Gene Selection Method for Microarray-based Cancer Classification. Cancer Informatics 2010, 9:15-30.

10. Wang X and Gotoh O. Accurate Molecular Classification of Cancer Using Simple Rules. BMC Medical Genomics 2009, 2:64. Highly accessed.

11. Wang X and Gotoh O. Microarray-Based Cancer Prediction Using Soft Computing Approach. Cancer Informatics 2009, 7:123-139.

12. Wang X and Gotoh O. Cancer Classification Using Single Genes. Genome Informatics 2009, 23(1):179-188.

13. Xiaosheng Wang. A Generalized Decision Logic Language for Information Tables. Advances in Soft Computing 2007, 40:16-21.

14. Xiaosheng Wang. A Study of Information Granules. Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, San Jose, California, U. S. A, 2007.

15. Xiaosheng Wang. A Study of Some Relationships of Rough Sets and Grey Systems. Fuzzy Systems and Mathematics 2006, 20(6):129-135.

16. Xiaosheng Wang. Inducing Decision Rules: A Granular Computing Approach. Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Atlanta, U. S. A, 2006.

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