Ying grew up in Guilin, China and then went to Beijing for her undergraduate degree at Tsinghua. In 2005, Ying came to U.S. and got her PhD degree in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She then lived in the heart of Manhattan for five years working as a Postdoc at New York University. In 2016, she moved back to the Midwest, and started her own lab at Purdue, West Lafayette.

Area of expertise: Functional genomics; Epigenomics; Histone modification; Environmental responses; Systems Biology; Plant Genetics

Computational biologist with interest in decoding biological information—such as gene regulation and evolutionary signals—embedded in genomic elements.

working at Inari.

Current position: Assistant Professor in University of Wisconsin-Green bay
USDA postdoc fellow

Current position: Assistant Professor at Illinois State University
USDA postdoc fellow

Currently working at Corteva.

Current position: Bioinformatics Scientist at Varian

Now working at Base5 Genomics.

Currently doing PhD in University of Wisconsin.