Tieming Ji

Education
Ph.D. in Statistics and in Bioinformatics (Expected in May 2012)
Advisor: Drs. Dan Nettleton, Peng Liu, Patrick Schnable
Iowa State University

M.S. in Computer Science and minor in Mathematics in 2007       
Advisor: Dr. Desh Ranjan
New Mexico State University

B.S. in Statistics and Finance in 2005       
University of Science and Technology of China

Publications
Referred Journal Articles

1. Ji, T., Liu, P., Nettleton, D., “Borrowing Information across Genes and Experiments for Improved Error Variance Estimation in Microarray Data Analysis,” Submitted.

2. Ji, T., Liu, P., Nettleton, D., "Estimation and Testing of Gene Expression Heterosis using Microarray Data", to be submitted.

3. Schnable, P., Myers, B., Wu, W., Liu, S., Ji, T., Krupkowski, J., Thompson, M., Nettleton, D., Potential of Carbon Capturing Crops to Mitigate Global Climate Change, to be submitted to Science.

4. Jovanovic, B., Ji, T., Palic, D., "Gene expression of zebrafish embryos exposed to titanium dioxide nanoparticles and hydroxylated fullerenes," Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Journal, 2011, 74, pp 1518-1525. 

5. Swanson-Wagner R., DeCook, R., Jia, Y., Bancroft, T., Ji, T., Zhao, X., Nettleton, D., Schnable, P., “Paternal dominance of Trans-eQTL influences gene expression patterns in maize hybrids,” Science, 2009, vol. 326, no. 5956, pp. 1118-1120. 

6. Springer, N., Ying, K, Fu, Y., Ji, T., Yeh, C., Jia, Y., Wu, W., Richmond, T.,Kitzman, J., Rosenbaum, H., Iniguez, A., Barbazuk, W., Jeddeloh, J., Nettleton, D., Schnable, P., “Maize inbreds exhibit high levels of Copy Number Variation (CNV) and Presence/Absence Variation (PAV) in genome content,” PLoS Genetics, 2009, 5(11):e1000734.

7. Liu, S., Yeh, C., Ji, T., Ying, K., Wu, H., Tang, H., Fu, Y., Nettleton, D., Schnable, P., “Mu transposon insertion sites and meiotic recombination events co-localize with epigenetic marks for open chromatin across the maize genome,” PLoS Genetics, 2009, 5(11):e1000733.

8. Coble, D., etc. (2011). Impacts of Salmonella Enteritidis Infection on the Liver Transcrip- tome in Broilers, in preparation of submission to BMC genomics.

9. Zhao, Y., etc. (2011). Inhibition of Azoxymethane-induced Preneoplastic Lesions in the Rat Colon by a Stearic Acid Complexed High-amylose Cornstarch using Different Cooking Methods and the Global Gene Expression Analysis of Water-boiled Stearic Acid Complexed High-amylose Cornstarch, in preparation of submission.

Peer Reviewed National/International Conference Papers

10. Nakazono, M., Rajhi, I., Takahashi, H., Shiono, K., Ohtsu, K., Tsutsumi, N., Ji, T., Nettleton, D., Schnable, P., Nishizawa, N. (2009). Identification of genes expressed during aerenchyma formation in maize roots using laser microdissection and a microarray, Proceedings of Interational Symposium Root Research and Applications, 2009.

11. Ji, T., Vasudevan, B., Gopavarapu, K., Ranjan, D., Gopalan, D., OConnell, M., “Tools for Cis-element Recognition and Phylogenetic Tree Construction Based on Conserved Patterns,” Proceedings of ISCA CATA, 2007.

12. Ji, T., Curry, J., Ranjan, D., OConnell, M., “Computational Identification of Cis-regulatory Elements Associated with Pungency of Chili Peppers,” Proceedings of IEEE BIBE, 2007.

13. Ji, T., Vasudevan, B., Ranjan, D., Gopalan, C., “Analysis of Cis-regulatory elements on Glutamine Synthetases Sequences,” Proceedings of IAPR PRIB, 2007.

Research in Progress

14. Ji, T., Liu, P., Nettleton, D., Estimation and Testing of Gene Expression Heterosis using RNA-Sequencing Data.

15. Ji, T., Hardy, J., Scanlon, M., Model Successfully Predicts Relative Degree of Transfer of Cognitive Training Under Natural Use Conditions for a Web-Based Training Program.

16. Yang, B., etc., Transcription Profiling and Functional Analyses of Bacterial Disease Suscep- tibility Pathways of Rice.

17. Tuggle, C., Huang, T., Couture, O., Ramer-Tait, A., Christian, C., Uthe, J., Demirkale, C. Y., Ji, T., Nettleton, D., Wannemuehler, M. J., and Bearson S., The porcine transcriptomic response to Salmonella Typhimurium and its endotoxin.










Email: tji@iastate.edu

Expertise

Large-scale inference
regression analysis
experimental design
Bayesian method
non/semi-parametric inference
computationally intensive methods
visualization

Consulting Experience

Biostatistics consultant for Iowa State University community providing experiment design suggestions, data analysis, data visualization and interpretation. So far, I have had many collaborative projects leading to successful publications .

Computer Skills

R, SAS, MatLab, C\C++, SQL, Python, Java

Honors and Awards

T. A. Bancroft Award, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, 2011
IGERT Graduate Fellowship, Bioinformatics Program, Iowa State University, 2008
Graduation with Honor of GPA 4.00, New Mexico State University, 2007
Student Paper Award in 2007 PRIB conference
Microsoft Travel Grant for Grace Hopper Workshop 2007
Outstanding Student Awards for three consecutive years in college 2002-2005

Leadership and Service

VP of Stat-ers at Statistics Department 2009-2010
Chair of Research Training Group Seminar at Statistics Department 2009-2010
Treasurer of ACM organization, Computer Science Department, New Mexico State University 2006-2007
Treasurer of Graduate Student Organization, Computer Science Department, New Mexico State University 2005-2006

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