Zhengdeng Lei


Ph.D. in Bioinformatics
Dai Lab Group
Department of Bioengineering
University of Illinois at Chicago
Email : zlei2 at uic.edu
Tel: 312-413-4819(Lab)
     773-715-3766(new cell phone number)
Advisor: Associate Professor Yang Dai

Curriculum Vitae

I am going to work as a high-throughput computational analyst at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from October, 2007.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Data mining, text mining, statistical learning, and statistical analysis
  • Computational genome annotation
  • Genome-wide prediction of disease-relevant genes



  • EDUCATION

    2003 - 2007

      University of Illinois at Chicago,

      Bioinformatics, PhD

    1998 - 2001

      National Chromatographic Research & Analysis Center,

      Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

      Analytical Chemistry, MS

    1994 - 1998

      College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering,

      Peking University,

      Analytical Chemistry, BS



    TEACHING

    Teaching Assistant "Introduction to Biostatistics" BIOE439 Spring 2007 for BiTmaP training program @ UIC
    Teaching Assistant "Introduction to Biostatistics" BIOE439 Fall 2006 for BiTmaP training program @ UIC
    Teaching Assistant "Introduction to Biostatistics" BIOE439 Spring 2006


    WORK EXPERIENCE

    2001 - 2003

      Keyou Software Company, China

      Team Sub-leader / Team Leader

    Projects
    Project 1: COSMOS: Toyota e-commerce system, Pro*C, Oracle
    Project 2: Roller pole inspector: A quality control system for precision instruments based on edge detection, Visual C++
    Project 3: Company management system, Java (struts framework), Oracle
    Project 4: Sales management system, Visual Basic, SQL Server


    HONORS

  • "Innovation Cup" Individual Computer Science Competition, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Rank 5th, 2000.

  • Privilege to enter Graduate Program at Chinese Academy of Sciences, waived of the qualification test, 1998.

  • University Student English Composition Competition, Beijing, Second Prize, 1996.



  • COMPUTER SKILL

    Language:

      c/c++ (MFC & STL),Perl, Java, VB(including VBA), R, SAS, etc.

    Algorithm:

      Genetic Algorithm, Simulated Annealing, Support Vector Machine, Neural Network, Wavelet Analysis, Clustering.

    Database:

      Oracle(PL/SQL), SQL Server, mysql.



    WEB SERVER

    Subnuclear Compartments Prediction System (Version 2.0)

    My personal server based on JBOSS



    PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

  • Peer Review for Journals:
  • Bioinformatics

    FEBS Letters

  • Review for Conference:
  • IEEE EMBS 2006

  • BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) membership


  • PUBLICATIONS [J-Journal, C-Conference, P-Poster, PT-Patent]

    Journal papers

    [J13] Zhengdeng Lei, Yang Dai
    Assessing protein similarity with Gene Ontology and its use in subnuclear localization prediction;
    BMC bioinformatics, 2006, 7:491[pdf]
    [J12] Zhengdeng Lei, Yang Dai
    An SVM-based system for predicting protein subnuclear localizations;
    BMC bioinformatics, 2005, 6:291 [pdf]
    [J11] Zhengdeng Lei, Yang Dai
    A class of new kernels based on a matrix of high-scored pairs of k-peptides and its applications in prediction of protein sub-cellular localization;
    LNCS Transactions on Computational Systems Biology II, Springer-Verlag, 2005, 3680, 48-58 [pdf]
    [J10] Zhong Guo, Songyun Xu, Zhengdeng Lei, Hanfa Zou, Baochuan Guo
    Immobilized metal-ion chelating capillary microreactor for peptide mapping analysis of proteins by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometry;
    Electrophoresis 2003, 24, 3633-3639 [pdf]
    [J9] Mingliang Ye, Hanfa Zou, Renan Wu, Hongjing Fu, Zhengdeng Lei
    Modeling and optimization for separation of ionic solutes in pressurized flow Capillary electrochromatography;
    J. Sep. Sci., 2002, 25, 416-426 [pdf]
    [J8] Mingliang Ye, Hanfa Zou, Zhen Liu, Zhengdeng Lei, Renan Wu, Jianyi Ni
    Study of competitive binding of enantiomers to protein by affinity capillary electrochromatography;
    J. Pharm. Boimed. Anal., 2002, 27, 651-660 [pdf]
    [J7] Mingliang Ye, Hanfa Zou, Zhengdeng Lei, Renan Wu, Zhen Liu, Jianyi Ni
    Enantiomer separation by strong anion-exchange capillary electrochromatography with dynamically modified sulfated beta-cyclodextrin;
    Electrophoresis 2001, 22, 518-525 [pdf]
    [J6] Zhengdeng Lei, Mingliang Ye, Hanfa Zou, Renan Wu, Jianyi Ni
    Separation of Anionic Compounds by Strong Anion-Exchange Capillary Electrochromatography;
    Chinese J. Anal. Chem. 2001, 29:262-266 [pdf]
    [J5] Renan Wu, Hanfa Zou, Mingliang Ye, Zhengdeng Lei, Jianyi Ni
    Capillary electrochromatography for separation of peptides driven with electrophoretic mobility on monolithic column;
    Anal. Chem., 2001, 73, 4918-4923 [pdf]
    [J4] Mingliang Ye, Hanfa Zou, Zhengdeng Lei, Renan Wu, Jianyi Ni
    Hydrophilic interaction capillary electrochromatography for separation of polar compounds;
    LC&GC, 2001, 19, 1076-1079 [pdf]
    [J3] Renan Wu, Hanfa Zou, Mingliang Ye, Zhengdeng Lei, Jianyi Ni
    Separation of basic, acidic and neutral compounds on CEC with uncharged monolithic capillary column modified with anionic and cationic surfactants;
    Electrophoresis, 2001, 22, 544-551 [pdf]
    [J2] Mingliang Ye, Hanfa Zou, Zhengdeng Lei, Renan Wu, Zhen Liu, Jianyi Ni
    Separation of acidic and neutral compounds by strong anion-exchange capillary electrochromatography dynamically modified with sodium dodecylsulfate;
    Chromatographia 2001, 53, 425-430 [pdf]
    [J1] Mingliang Ye, Hanfa Zou, Zhen Liu, Zhengdeng Lei, Jianyi Ni
    Study on the open tubular capillary affinity liquid chromatography;
    J. Chromatogr. Sci., 2000, 38, 517-520 [reprint]

    Conference papers

    [C2] Zhengdeng Lei, Yang Dai
    A new kernel based on a matrix of high-scored pairs of tri-peptides and its applications in prediction of protein sub-cellular localization;
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2005, 3515, 903-910 [pdf]
    [C1] Zhengdeng Lei, Yang Dai
    A novel approach for prediction of protein subcellular localization from sequence using Fourier analysis and support vector machines;
    Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics, 2004, p11-17 [pdf]

    Patent

    [PT1] Zhengdeng Lei, Zhong Guo, Hanfa Zou, Qingchun Zhang, Liang Kong
    Construction and regeneration of an enzyme micro-reactor and its application in protein identification;
    China Patent (CN 01136860.8); 2001 [pdf]

    Posters

    [P3] Zhengdeng Lei and Yang Dai
    Improve protein subnuclear localization prediction by incorporating Gene Ontology
    Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Chicago, October 11-14, 2006
    [P2] Zhengdeng Lei and Yang Dai
    A new kernel based on a matrix of high-scored pairs of k-peptides and its application in protein subcellular localization prediction
    Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), Michigan, June 25-29, 2005
    [P1] Zhengdeng Lei and Yang Dai
    A support vector machines approach to predict protein subcellular localization
    Proteomics Symposium 2004, Chicago, April 17, 2004

    Presentations

    [2] International Conference on Computational Science, Emory University, Atlanta, 2005
    [1] Sigma Xi Research Forum, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, 2005



    RESEARCH RESOURCE

  • Look up a linux/unix command: (e.g "chmod")
  • Install Bioperl for Windows Bioperl Tutorial
  • Mapping Other Databases to Gene Ontology
  • FTP for GOA (human, mouse, uniprot, pdb databases ...)
  • The comprehensive Universal Protein Resource download center
  • ANN Paramsearch open MPI
  • wikipedia  wiki dictionary
  • EMBOSS Download Documentation Introduction to Sequence Analysis using EMBOSS


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