Alexandre Cheng
Associate Professor
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Cheng is an associate professor and translational researcher based in Montreal who leads a lab developing next-generation blood-based diagnostic assays for cancer detection. With a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell and eight years of experience across academia and industry, he blends bioinformatics, NGS assay development, and machine learning to push liquid biopsy technologies toward clinical impact. His recent roles include principal scientist at CRCHUM and postdoctoral work at the New York Genome Center where he built ML tools and sequencing assays for liquid biopsies. Known for translating complex genomics into practical diagnostics, he also earned teaching recognition at Cornell and brings a strong engineering foundation from Polytechnique Montréal. Less obvious: he navigates both wet-lab assay design and computational pipelines, uniquely positioning him to bridge discovery and deployment in cancer diagnostics.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Pure and Applied Sciences, Marianopolis Scholar (overall average of 90%+), Pure and Applied Sciences, Marianopolis Scholar (overall average of 90%+) at Marianopolis CollegeBachelor of Engineering - BE (with Honours), Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE (with Honours), Biomedical Engineering at Polytechnique MontréalDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University
French, English
Github Skills (7)
bioinformatics8
sequence7
bam2
genome2
genomics2
seq2
letter1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexpcheng/bisulfite_cfDNA
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:48 commits in 1 month
alexpcheng/pellanchenglab
Mar 2023 - Nov 2023
Source code for my website! A huge thanks to Greene Lab for making their template available
Contributions:2 PRs, 63 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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