Feng Chen

Experience

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  美国麻省理工学院

  Jan 2020 - Aug 2020

  • Learned and used bioreactor simulators to cultivate cells and study the bioprocesses for both mammalian and yeast cells.• Researched experimental settings for vaccine production, performed tests using AAV on the simulators, and compared with experimental results; tried to optimize the parameterization of vaccine production for COIVD-19 to maximize the yield.• Collected and analyzed data and wrote reports about the optimal environment for the potential expanded-scale production. • Helped Countstar test its new Cell Counter product – test all functional modules to identify the problems and write weekly summary reports to the professor and the company representatives.• Studied the literature regarding bovine stem-cell growing media and researched the possibility of extending the product’s function to stem cell growth.

  • Research Assistant

    May 2020 - Aug 2020

  • Research Assistant

    Jan 2020 - May 2020
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  Brandeis University

  Mar 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Researched the virus-host interactions of other published coronaviruses and compared SARS-CoV-2 with them after multiple sequence alignment.• Built graphs presenting sequence similarities in viral and host proteins and networks of the protein-protein interaction.• Built and optimized our own machine learning model, which performed graph embedding and content embedding to capture the network and trained a multi-layer perceptron classifier to predict the highly potential PPI and infections of SARS-CoV-2 among animals.• Analyzed the results and the performance compared with other existing tools and generalized the model in the virus-host relationship study. Show less

  • Research Assistant

    Feb 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Research Assitant

    Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
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  Amazon

  May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Software Engineer Intern

  • Work to improve the scalability of the network optimization model that continuously optimizes the outbound transportation network • Optimize shortest path algorithm used in the workflow of the team• Integrate three methods with preprocessing to enhance the speed for the algorithm• Research on graph partition algorithm and apply on the TimeSpaceNetwork

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  Gordian Ventures

  Mar 2023 - Aug 2023

  Investment Intern

  • New technologies research including t-RNA, Aptamers, Brain-computer interfaces and write publish information books.• Collected and mapped Biotech companies early funded by several large ventures. Summarized their key technology and pipelines and clustered and visualized the recent trends of drug discovery.• Did investigation on the technology, members, and market of the potentially funded companies; drafted a question list for them and provided key suggestions for the final investment decision.• Collected and calculated the comprehensive market size and the potential growth rate for the peptide drug market and supported the valuation of our newly incubated companies using the DCF model. Show less

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  University of Washington

  Sept 2023 - now

  PHD Graduate Student