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Nancy Liao
6536 Randolph Ave.
Burnaby, B.C. V5H 3W4
Tel: (604) 763-2451
E-mail: nancyliao33@hotmail.com
CAREER OBJECTIVE
To pursue a career as a computational biologist or bioinformatician
BACKGROUND SUMMARY
· 2-year experience in analyzing and data mining DNA, SAGE and EST data
· 2-year experience in processing and developing database for biological data
· 2-year experience in pattern extracting, clustering and classification on biological data
· 3-year programming experience using C++, Visual Basic and object-oriented, 3-tier enterprise application design and programming
· 2-year experience in using SQL, MySQL and database programming (ODBC, JDBC, ADO and mysql-jconnetor)
· 1-year experience in JAVA programming (JDBC, JSP, Servlet)
· 1-year experience in web application development (ASP, Vbscript, Javascript, DHTML, CSS, XML)
WORK EXPERIENCE
2001 Sep-2002 Jan
Computational biologist and bioinformatician, Helios Bioinformatics, Vancouver, BC
· Designed the databases to store the EST data for data mining
· Implemented a few clustering algorithms to group genes with similar expression patterns
· Designed and implemented user interface to visualize the output
2000 Jan-2001 Aug
Computational biologist and software engineer, Intelligent Database Lab, Simon Fraser University
· Designed a good algorithm to get repeat patterns from DNA sequences
· Implemented the DNA-Miner system, which can find repeat patterns in DNA sequences
· Did some joined work on gene classification
1999 Jan-1999 April
Software developer, Surrey Metro Saving, Surrey, BC
· Database design and modeling, developing Entity-Relationship model
· Used Visual Basic and ODBC to maintain and optimize the existing software for banking.
COMPUTER SKILLS
· Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows and Mac.
· Languages: Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP and JSP
· Databases: SQL, MySQL and Sybase
OTHER SKILLS
· Working experience in bioinformatics and biology area
· Strong academic background in data mining and pattern extracting
· Strong written, verbal communication skills
· Can work well independently as well as in a team environment
EDUCATION
· M.Sc., School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
· B.Sc., Biology department, Wuhan University, China
REWARDS
· 2001 Opus Building Corporation Graduate Scholarship in Expert Systems
· 1992 Outstanding Student Fellowship
· 1991 University dancing contest (Ranked 1st)
PUBLICATIONS
· J. Han, H. Jamil, Y. Lu, L.Chen, Y. Liao, J.Pei: DNA-Miner: A system Prototype for Mining DNA sequence. SIGMOD 2001
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Reading, Dancing, Swimming, Tennis, Painting, Traveling
References available upon request
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