Bo Li
Principal Scientist II at Genentech
South San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBo Li is a Principal Scientist II in Computational Biology with 11 years of experience building scalable tools for single-cell genomics and spatial omics, currently based in South San Francisco. He blends deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin–Madison) with industry leadership at Genentech and prior research roles at Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute, and UC Berkeley. Bo has a track record of translating cutting-edge single-cell and spatial methods into production-ready software, driving cross-disciplinary projects from algorithm development to large-scale implementation. Notably, his career spans both foundational machine learning research (including an early internship at Microsoft Research Asia) and hands-on biological data science, enabling him to bridge computational rigor with practical lab and pharma needs.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
high school in hebei?Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.E. Computer Science and Engineering, B.E. Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (87)
cancer-genomics10
seq10
structural-variation10
genomics10
bam10
rna-seq10
fasta10
single-cell-genomics10
bioinformatics10
pipeline9
scalable9
approximate9
sphinx-doc9
python9
forge9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
klarman-cell-observatory/scCloud
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
Klarman Cell Observatory tools, workflows, and spells
Contributions:187 commits, 3 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 3 months
spellsworkflowsobservatory
broadinstitute/scRNA-Seq
Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:327 commits, 91 pushes, 4 tags in 1 year 3 months
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