Principal Investigator

Yike Shen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Texas at Arlington
Email: yike.shen@uta.edu
my CV

Training:

• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University in the City of New York, 06/2020-08/2023
• Ph.D. Crop and Soil Science – Environmental Toxicology, Michigan State University, 2020
• Ph.D. dual major, Environmental Science and Policy, Michigan State University, 2020
• B.Sc. Environmental and Conservation Sciences, University of Alberta, 2016

Mentees

Xingyu Zhang

March 2023-present
Master of Public Health Student at Columbia University
Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science, Colby College, Waterville, ME, United States

Maryam Ghalamkari

October 2023 – present
Ph.D. student, University of Texas at Arlington
Ph.D. dissertation committee member. Dissertation chair Dr. Un-Jung Kim.

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Lab Alumni

Boris Minasenko

January 2023-September 2023

• Next position: Bioinformatics Analyst at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
• MS thesis: Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering of Epigenome-wide DNA Methylation Profiles in Cancer Subtypes: A Comparative Analysis of PCA, t-SNE, UMAP, and Autoencoder Approaches (manuscript in prepration)
• Master of Science in Toxicology, Columbia University, New York, NY