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  Assistant Professor (PI), Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, 2019-Present

  Research Assistant Professor (faculty), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017-2019

  Postdoctoral fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014-2017

  Doctoral thesis, The Chinese Unviersity of Hong Kong, 2010-2014

  Bachelor thesis, Unviersity of Science and Techonology of China, 2006-2010

  • National Students Innovative Project: Gesture interaction methods: an implementation based on FPGA, wireless EMG sensors and accelerometers. Under supervision of Prof. Xiang Chen (陈香), I have designed/implemented a FPGA-based system for electromyography signal recognition and modelling.

  • ABU Robocon 2010 (China Division) USTC team supervised by Prof. Fanrang Kong (孔凡让) and Prof. Hui Li (李辉). I'm the leader of the electronic circuit team and have designed/implemented most of the PCBs for our robots.

Research interests
  • Computational biology and bioinformatics
  • LncRNA identification and functional study
  • DNA methylation biomarkers in cancers and diseases
  • Noninvasive prenatal/cancer testing using plasma DNA analysis
  • Data mining and visualization

Research highlights
  • Trace the tissue origin of the tumor through liquid biopsy
  • Sun et al. PNAS 2015 Oct 6; 112(40):E5503-12.
    Plasma DNA Tissue Mapping

    Sun et al. Genome Res 2019 Mar; 29(3):418-427.
    Orientation-aware CfDNA Fragmentation analysis

  • Molecular basis of cfDNA fragmentation
  • Sun et al. PNAS 2018 May 29; 115(22):E5106-E5114.
    Size-tagged preferred ends

    An et al. Nat Commun 2023 Jan 18; 14(1):287.
    DNAm regulate cfDNA

  • Interactions between YY1 transcription factor and lncRNAs
  • Zhou et al. Nat Commun 2015 Dec 11; 6:10026.
    Linc-Yy1

    Lu et al. EMBO J 2013 Oct 2; 32(19):2575-88.
    Yy1 and Yam-1