Research Assistant, Scientific Programmer, Biophysicist

YU SHI

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experimental physicist with broad understanding and hands-on experience in theoretical/computational physics, expecting to receive doctorate in May 2019. Motivated with the ability to design and conduct experiments, perform complex modeling, large scale data analysis and solve multi-parameter problems. Proficient at project management, training and supervision of researchers with varying levels of experience.

SKILLS

• Design of Experiments (DOE)

• Computer Aided Design (AutoCAD)

• Circuit Design and Building

• Statistically Controlled Measurements

• Data Acquisition and Analysis

• Particle Tracking

• Quantitative Image Processing

• Light Microscopy (Phase, Bright Field and

Confocal)

• Teaching and Supervising

• Cell Culture

• Machine Learning

• Microfabrication: Photolithography, Replica

molding.

• Mathematics: Statistics, Mathematical

Modeling, Optimization.

• Scientific Programming: Igor, Matlab, C,

Mathemitica, SQL, Python, Fortran.

• Physics: Condensed Matter Physics,

Biophysics, Computational Physics.

Statistical Physics.

• Biotechnology: Mechano-biology, Cell

Engineering and Mechanics.

EXPERIENCE

09/2012 – PRESENT

Graduate Student Researcher & Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University Supervisor: Dr. Daniel H. Reich (Johns Hopkins University) Chief Collaborator: Dr. Leslie Tung, Dr. Yun Chen (Johns Hopkins University), Dr. John. C Crocker

(University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Christopher Chen (Boston University) Project:

• Fabricated micrometer-scaled pillar arrays through photolithography and replica molding to measured cellular fluctuations. Track pillar’s time trajectories via image processing and high precision particle tracking (up to nanometer accuracy).

• Built a magnetic actuation system with implemented hall sensor that enables synchronized measurements of magnetic field and camera capturing

• Bifurcated cell-associated micropillars based on their dynamical properties and built a Lévy walk model which reproduced the dynamical characterizations in one of the types.

• Built an algorithm that automated data mining of micropillar neighboring pairs with highly synchronized and anti-correlated motions and found the physics of such events resembled avalanches.

• Designed and fabricated masks via photolithography to culture cardiac cells in desired patterns and studied the beatings of small groups of cells. 09/2012 – 06/2016

Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins University

02/2011 – 06/2012

Research Assistant, University of Science and Technology of China Supervisor: Dr. Ning Xu (University of Science and Technology of China) Project:

• Used molecular dynamics simulation to study shear thickening phenomenon EDUCATION

2019 (Expected)

Ph.D.: Experimental Condensed Matter and Biological Physics Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

2017

Certificate of Advanced Study: Nano Biotechnology

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

2012

Bachelor of Science: Physics

University of Since and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui GPA: 3.94/4.3

PUBLICATIONS

• Yu Shi, Christopher L. Porter, John C. Crocker, Daniel H. Reich: Observation of Lévy Dynamics and Avalanches in the Cell Cortex (submitted)

• Fan Xu, Ruogang Zhao, Alan S. Liu, Tristin Metz, Yu Shi, Prasenjit Bose and Daniel H. Reich: A microfabricated magnetic actuation device for mechanical conditioning of arrays of 3D microtissues (Lab on a chip, 2015)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

American Physical Society (APS) Annual March Meeting

• Characterizing Active Cytoskeletal Dynamics with Magnetic Microposts

(March 2017, New Orleans, LA, talk)

Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

• Dissecting Cellular Dynamics with Magnetically Actuated Micropost Arrays

(November 2016, New Orleans, LA, talk)

Biophysical symposium

• Probing Subcellular Actomyosin Network Dynamics via Magnetic Micropost Arrays

(May 2017, College Park, MD, poster)

HONOR

• Recipient of University of Science and Technology of China Outstanding Student Scholarship Scholarship given to top 15% undergraduate students (2009, 2011)

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