Biography
Maisie (Xiaomei) is a CERC postdoctoral fellow in the Crops Data Science Team of the Agriculture and Food business unit. Her work focuses on designing the Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Platform in Genomics and Bioinformatics. Before that, Maisie worked as a research associate at the University of South Australia (UniSA), developing drug repurposing methods for COVID-19 treatment. She obtained her PhD in Bioinformatics from UniSA, where she developed computational methods for breast cancer prognosis in precision medicine.
Maisie is generally interested in developing and applying data mining/machine learning and causal inference methods to solve real-world problems. She has applied machine learning in various fields such as preeclampsia biomarkers identification, RNA tertiary structure prediction, protein subcellular localization prediction and cell position prediction.
Academic Qualifications
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2022
Doctor of Philosophy
University of South Australia -
2011
Master of Computer Science
Fuzhou University, China
Achievements and Awards
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2019-2019
Winner of Single-Cell DREAM Challenge
DREAM Challenge Organizers, USA -
2014-2014
National Scholarship for Graduate Students
The Government of China -
2011-2011
Academic Excellence Award
Fuzhou University, China
Current Roles
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CERC Postdoctoral Fellow
Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Platform in Genomics and Bioinformatics
Fields of Research
Professional Experiences
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2022-2022
Research associate
University of South Australia -
2019-2020
Research assistant
University of South Australia
ORCID 0000-0002-8870-3186