Assistant Professor of Medicine and Associate Epidemiologist
Channing Division of Network Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Hello!

I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Epidemiologist in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

I strive to develop exposome data integration and machine learning algorithms to better discover actionable patterns from big population health data. My research considers the totality of the biological, lifestyle, and environmental factors that impacts population health and provides personalized solutions that allow individuals and neighborhoods to improve their health and wellness.

News and Highlights

[03/2024]: I am excited to deliver a talk on the challenges and opportunities in integrating and leveraging contextual-level social determinants of health at the AMIA 2024 Informatics Summit.
[09/2023]: Grateful to receive an RF1 award from NIA, as the contact PI, to support our research on post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent disease progression in individuals with AD/ADRD.
[07/2023]: Excited to be appointed as a standing member for NIH's ASPB study section.
[06/2023]: Grateful to receive an administrative supplement from NIA and NHLBI to expand my K01 award to examine hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and early-onset Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
[04/2023]: Our spatial and contextual exposome-wide association study of COVID-19 hospitalization has been published on Exposome.
[07/2022]: I am excited to deliver a talk on the methodological challenges in spatial and contextual exposome studies at the monthly 'Chalk Talks' hosted by the Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health. A companion review article on this topic was also published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology.
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Selected Honors and Awards

  • The Sandra A. Daugherty Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease or Hypertension Epidemiology, American Heart Association, 2019
  • Insight Health Data Science Scholarship, Insight Data Science, 2016
  • ISEE Travel Award, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, 2014
  • Outstanding Research Award, Univeristy of Florida, 2013

Background

I received my PhD from University of Florida co-mentored by Dr. Xiaohui Xu and Dr. Linda B. Cottler. I received my Bachelor degree from Fudan University. I was also a fellow in the Insight Health Data Science Program.