Hongyu Xiao
Undergraduate Researcher / Web Developer at McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine- Claim this Profile
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Chinese Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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Credentials
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Biosafety and WHMIS
加拿大麦克马斯特大学Sep, 2019- Oct, 2024
Experience
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McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine
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Canada
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Undergraduate Researcher / Web Developer
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May 2023 - Present
• Taliun's Lab under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Taliun • Developed a variant browser based on the open-source BRAVO platform for CARTaGENE with a specific focus on French Canadian population in Quebec • Developed skills in manipulating vcf/bcf files (bcftools, VEP pipeline, C/C++), building and using MongoDB, developing web API (Python) and UI (vue / JavaScript / HTML) • Taliun's Lab under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Taliun • Developed a variant browser based on the open-source BRAVO platform for CARTaGENE with a specific focus on French Canadian population in Quebec • Developed skills in manipulating vcf/bcf files (bcftools, VEP pipeline, C/C++), building and using MongoDB, developing web API (Python) and UI (vue / JavaScript / HTML)
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McMaster University
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Canada
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Undergraduate Researcher
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Nov 2022 - Present
• TRIMBA Lab under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Cannon• Programed a haptic feedback device (@Haply) to deliver auditory and haptic feedback events during restricted rhythmic movement to induce motor errors through unexpected force resistance occasionally• Constructed an analysis pipeline (in R) to analyze the data from an online experiment investigating the influence of tempo change and motor error on human rhythm perception
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Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Feb 2022 - Apr 2023
• Goldreich Tactile Perception Lab under the supervision of Dr. Goldreich• Investigate whether human haptic categorization follows a Bayesian optimal manner by comparing participants’ haptic categorization performance with Bayesian observer models’ performances• Built the Bayesian observer model based on the fundamental Bayes’ Theorem, Bayesian model comparison, and Bayesian parameters estimation in the LabVIEW environment
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A Med Thing or Two
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Canada
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Wellness and Fitness Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Lead
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Aug 2021 - Present
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Undergraduate Participant
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Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
• Reviewed Brain-Computer Interfaces contents, including neuroengineering, membrane biophysics, and computational models in neuroscience • Investigated human memory and cognition; Discussed the context of neural recording and stimulation • Reviewed Brain-Computer Interfaces contents, including neuroengineering, membrane biophysics, and computational models in neuroscience • Investigated human memory and cognition; Discussed the context of neural recording and stimulation
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Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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United States
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Undergraduate Participant
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Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
• under the supervision of Dr. Sreekanth Chalasani • Identified a SNP on the SLC6A4 gene that correlated with anxiety disorder through GWAS; Generate a hypothesis of the effects of SLC6A4 mutations on anxiety disorder; Applied CRISPR-Cas9 technology on mice to further investigate the correlation between SLC6A4 mutations and anxiety disorder (the genetic component of anxiety disorder) • Conducted a systemic literature review on anxiety disorder, with a specific focus on the correlation with the digestive system and anxiety disorder; published a review paper discussing the effect of gut microbiome on anxiety Show less
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Research Assistant
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Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
• under the supervision of Dr. Chao Liu • Investigated proteomics, which contributed to the analysis of big data of protein. Efficiently assisted in conducting Peptide Mass Fingerprinting to help to analyze protein categories. • under the supervision of Dr. Chao Liu • Investigated proteomics, which contributed to the analysis of big data of protein. Efficiently assisted in conducting Peptide Mass Fingerprinting to help to analyze protein categories.
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Education
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McMaster University
Honours B.Sc., Neuroscience