I obtained my PhD (Bioinformatics) in 2006, and  joined the MRC-Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford. Here I worked on HIV epitope mutations and the differential expression of T-cell genes in activated and normal conditions. I developed novel computational methods to analyse variations in the MHC class-I epitopes of HIV in serial clinical sequences.

In the summer of 2012, I joined the Viral Genomics and Bioinformatics team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR), Glasgow. Since then I have been involved in various viral genome analysis projects including ASFV, HCV, Ebola and Zika. My current research mainly focuses on the assembly and analysis of viral genomes, intra and inter-host variations, micro RNA analysis and developing new programs and algorithms to better understand viral behaviours. I am actively involved in bioinformatics training and knowledge exchange programs in the UK and abroad.