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      text: LinkedIn
      href: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerenxu/
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      href: /~https://github.com/XUKEREN
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      text: Twitter
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I am a Bioinformatics Scientist at Tempus AI, with a PhD in Epidemiology from the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, where I studied variant discovery in human DNA sequencing data and (epi)genome-wide association analysis to better understand the genetic and epigenetic risk factors of hematological malignancies, such as child acute lymphoblastic leukemia and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. I completed MPH degree in Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and BS degree in Pharmacy in Shanghai, China. I am interested in genomics data science and data visualization.