Brian Zhang
Senior Computational Biologist
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Zhang is a Senior Computational Biologist with 12 years of experience at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and biological data analysis, currently leading computational efforts at Adaptive Biotechnologies. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Oxford and a BA in Physics from Harvard, bringing rigorous probabilistic modeling skills from academia into industry-scale immunogenomics. His background includes research engineering at DeepMind and hands-on roles across universities and biotech, reflecting a blend of production ML, research, and domain expertise. Brian’s work is distinguished by translating advanced statistical theory into reproducible pipelines for large-scale biological datasets—an approach informed by both high-frequency trading internship rigor and competitive research at top labs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics at University of OxfordHigh School, High School at Gunn High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics at Harvard University
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (48)
r-package10
knitr10
phylogenetics10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
science10
genetics9
python9
genetic9
scale9
infer9
literate-programming9
rmarkdown9
pure-python8
datasets8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
brianzhang01/tskit
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
The tree sequence toolkit
Contributions:4 PRs, 27 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 6 months
bioinformaticssequence
brianzhang01/website
Sep 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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