XIAOXING CHENG

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EDUCATION

BROWN UNIVERSITY

Master of Science in Biostatistics Expected May 2014

Science Master in Applied Mathematics Expected May 2014

Academics: 4.0 GPA including Computational Probability and Statistics, Mathematical Statistics, Theory of Probability.

Honors: Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Fellowship (top 7 from RI funded by NSF and NASA,

2011-2012), Brown Institute for Brain Science Graduate Research Award (top 4 from Brown University, 2012-2013)

Leadership: Vice president of Brown CSSA, Member of PKUAA-NE Executive Team

Thesis: Discriminant Analysis Based on Network Structure with an Application to fMRI Data Analysis

PEKING UNIVERSITY Beijing, China

Bachelor of Science in Statistics May 2010

Academics: 3.7 GPA including Time Series, Measure Theory, Numerical Analysis, Pattern Recognition.

Honors: Meritorious Winner in ICM and MCM (top 100 worldwide, 2008-2010), National Scholarship (top 1 in class,

2008), Outstanding Graduate in Beijing (top 5%, 2010)

Leadership: Supervisor of Printed Results Distribution (Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and 2007 Testing Games)

Thesis: Etiologic Diagnosis of Lower Respiratory Tract Bacterial Infections Using Sputum Samples and Quantitative

Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification PLoS ONE 7(6): e38743. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038743

RESEARCH

Discriminant Analysis Based on Network Structure with an Application to fMRI Data Analysis Providence, RI

Proposed predictive modeling techniques analyzing large data sets with network structure 2013-2014

Developed a numerical optimization algorithm based on alternating direction method of multipliers

Coded in R language, submitting to JRSSB

Empirical Bayes Analysis of RNA-seq without Replicates for Multiple Conditions Providence, RI

Developed a new Bayesian hierarchical model to detect differential expression 2012-2014

Maximized a posteriori (MAP) point estimation (Built R package EBA)

Presented at 2013 Rhode Island SURF Conference, 2013 ENAR, Brown University PHP Research Day

A study of biases of DNA copy number estimation based on PICR model Beijing, China

Bigmemory Project in R (software) File Preprocessing

Published on Frontiers of Mathematics in China, Volume 6, Number 6, 1203-1216, DOI: 10.1007/s11464-011-0125-x

Other packages and publications

Multivariate Longitudinal Subpopulation Discriminant Analysis (MATLAB)

R package SAE for analyzing spatial data

Type-B RR genes' expression associated with Cytokinins and Cytokinin Biosynthesis Genes in Poplar (Populus tomentosa)

(submitted to PLoS, Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, R)

The n-Coalescent, Simulation and the Coalescent as the inverse of branching process

EXPERIENCE

China Galaxy Securities Co Ltd - Intern-Investment Banking Department Beijing, China, Mar 2010 - May 2010

Released VBA valuation tool for mining right to all analysts at firm and significantly increasing information productivity

Conducted research on Cross-border M&A of Chinese enterprise

New Oriental Education & Tech Grp (ADR) - Intern-International Test Department Beijing, China, Jan 2010 – Feb 2010

Streamlined the opening ceremony of TOEFL Winter Camp and reviewed Advanced Placement Statistics Exam Prep Class

TECHNICAL SKILLS & TEACHING

Expertise in R, Matlab, VBA, WinBUGS, STATA, LATEX, Lingo and C in both PC and UNIX/Linux

SAS Certificated Advanced Programmer for SAS9

Taught Multi-Level Regression Models, Bioinformatics, Data Structures and Mathematical Statistics

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