Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Teaching
Selected Publications
Timeline
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Nianchao Wang

College Station,TX

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Research Assistant

Texas A&M University
09.2019 - Current

Research Assistant

Johns Hopkins University
09.2017 - 05.2019

Research Assistant

Nanjing University
09.2013 - 05.2017

Education

Master of Science - Biomedical Engineering

Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
05.2024

Master of Science - Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
05.2019

Bachelor of Science - Biological Science

Nanjing University
China
05.2017

Skills

    Python

    MATLAB

    RStudio

    Machine Learning (scikit-learn, R)

    Data analysis (Numpy)

    Convolutional neural network (TensorFlow), Data Visualization (ImageJ, napari)

    Image processing (OpenCV, scikit-image, scipy)

    Cell Segmentation (CellProfiler, CellPose)

    GUI development

    Microscopy (Optical Microscopy, Fluorescence Lifetime imaging)

    Biotechniques (Cell Culture, Western Blot, ELISA)

    Microfluidics

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University:

BMEN 305: Bioinstrumentation                                                     Fall 2021

BMEN 305: Bioinstrumentation                                                     Fall 2020

Selected Publications

1. Wang, Nianchao, Linghao Hu, Subha Holla, Amanda Galloway, and Alex J. Walsh. "Integration of modified U-Net model and watershed algorithm for enhanced instance segmentation of cells in autofluorescence imaging." (In Preparation)

2. Wang, Nianchao, Linghao Hu, and Alex J. Walsh. "Evaluation of CellPose segmentation with sequential thresholding for instance segmentation of cytoplasms within autofluorescence images." Submitted to Computers in Biology and Medicine. (Under Review)

3. Wang, Nianchao, Linghao Hu, and Alex J. Walsh. "POSEA: A novel algorithm to evaluate the performance of multi-object instance image segmentation." PloS one 18.3 (2023): e0283692.

4. Wang, Nianchao, et al. "A Modified Watershed Algorithm for Automated Segmentation of Autofluorescence Microscopy Images." Bio-Optics: Design and Application. Optica Publishing Group, 2021.

5. Hu, Linghao, Wang, Nianchao, et al. "Label-free spatially maintained measurements of metabolic phenotypes in cells." Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 11 (2023).

6. Hu, Linghao, Wang, Nianchao, et al. "Machine learning prediction of cancer cell metabolism from autofluorescence lifetime images." bioRxiv (2022): 2022-12.

7. Martinez, Jocelyn, Wang, Nianchao, et al. "Imaging in Scaffolds." Biomaterial Based Approaches to Study the Tumour Microenvironment. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022. 304-341.

8. Hu, Linghao, Wang, Nianchao, and Alex J. Walsh. "Classification of T cell metabolism from autofluorescence imaging features." Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues XIX. Vol. 11647. SPIE, 2021.

9. Hu, Linghao, Wang, Nianchao, et al. "Fluorescence intensity and lifetime redox ratios detect metabolic perturbations in T cells." Biomedical Optics Express 11.10 (2020): 5674-5688.

10. Law, Robert, Wang, Nianchao, et al. "Paving the Way: Migrating Leader Cells Dissociate from Collectively Migrating Sheets Under Geometric Confinement." 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting. AIChE, 2019.

Timeline

Research Assistant

Texas A&M University
09.2019 - Current

Research Assistant

Johns Hopkins University
09.2017 - 05.2019

Research Assistant

Nanjing University
09.2013 - 05.2017

Master of Science - Biomedical Engineering

Texas A&M University

Master of Science - Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

Bachelor of Science - Biological Science

Nanjing University
Nianchao Wang