Carol Zhou
Senior Computational Biologist
Pleasanton, California, United States
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Top SchoolCarol Zhou is a Senior Computational Biologist with over a decade of experience designing and implementing bioinformatics and protein-structure analysis systems, currently leading efforts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory focused on biodefense and antibiotic resistance. Trained across biology, chemistry, and computer science (PhD in Entomology, BS in Chemistry, BS in CS), she blends deep wet-lab expertise with multi-threaded C/C++ development and practical software engineering to build production-grade tools for genome and protein annotation. Her career spans academic research, industry R&D, and curriculum advising, including postdoctoral virology work and service on Cal Poly’s Computer Science Industry Advisory Board. Carol is driven by translating biological insight into computational solutions—she writes code to solve real-world problems in bacterial and viral genome annotation and protein informatics. An uncommon combination of Russian literature and rigorous STEM training hints at a thoughtful communicator and technical writer who mentors teams and shapes bioinformatics curricula.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, SacramentoM.A., Russian Literature, M.A., Russian Literature at Purdue UniversityUniversity of Missouri
Russian, French
Github Skills (22)
package-management10
conda10
genomes10
bioinformatics10
structural-variation9
genomics-visualization9
tsne9
bioconda9
comparative-genomics9
genomics9
phylogeny9
population-genetics9
jupyter-notebook8
mamba8
conda-build8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
carolzhou/Virus
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 12 pushes in 8 months
carolzhou/multiPhATE
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
Throughput PhATE processing of draft or finished phage genomes
Contributions:3 releases, 73 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 2 months
genomesgenomicsbioinformaticsthroughputfinished
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