Yiheng Bi

Investigated the impact of mass deworming on gut microbiome composition and antimicrobial resistance gene (ARG) profiles in Ethiopian children. Conducted metagenomic analysis on long-read sequencing data in R using packages like ALDEx2, LEfSe, and performed ARG profiling and network analysis using various statistical tests and tools such as Galaxy, ABRicate, and Gephi. Built Random Forest classifiers in R, achieving up to 93% accuracy in predicting deworming status. Discovered reduced Enterobacteriaceae in dewormed children and upregulated tetracycline resistance genes (tet(W), tet(O)) in Soil-transmitted-helminths(STH)-positive groups. Currently refining paper for submission and will be attending the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference (Feb 2025) to present poster.

Learned Google Workspace as well as file and folder automation using UiPath. Automated repetitive manual steps involved with invoice processing (e.g. accessing a Gmail account, reading messages, downloading invoice documents, saving, renaming, processing them into the document

management system) for the Colgate Accounting department.

Assisted in COSC 101 Lab weekly to answer students’ question and explain concepts related to COSC 101 and Python programming.

Conrad: developed and marketed JuiceNet—shared juice machine customized by personal health reports; responsible for innovative & technical design and competitive analysis; organized semi-weekly meetings; qualified as China Finalist and won Best Collaboration Award

IGEM: developed oral vaccine for rotavirus with team in wet lab; led experiments on B. subtilis competent cell preparation, E. coli transformation, PCR, SDS-PAGE, etc.; developed Notebook, Proof of Concept, & mathematical modeling; won Bronze

Advanced original research topic on effect of supra-/subliminal priming on prediction error learning of rats as indication for (sub)consciousness; authored/presented report independently; remade Skinner Box and devised ongoing experiments conducted at Capstone Biochemistry class at high school