Chan Zhou
Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChan Zhou is an assistant professor and computational biologist with nine years of post-PhD experience bridging bioinformatics, genomics, and big-data methods. After extended research fellowships at Harvard Medical School and Mass General, he leads computational genomics research and trains postdocs at UMass Medical School, recruiting talent through an active lab positions page. His background blends rigorous quantitative training—PhD-level bioinformatics and an honors mathematics bachelor's—with interdisciplinary stints in complexity and evolutionary genomics, enabling cross-cutting approaches to large-scale biological data. Chan has a track record of translating academic research into collaborative programs and community leadership (e.g., co-leading MGH’s Chinese Scientists and Staff Association), reflecting both technical depth and organizational engagement. Notably, his career path emphasizes long-term translational research roles rather than short-term consulting, signaling a commitment to mentoring and sustained lab-building.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
-, Evolutionary Biology, -, Evolutionary Biology at Evolutional Genomics Summer School (held by KIZ of CAS)Complexity System, Complexity System at Complexity System Summer School (held by SantaFe Institute & ITP of CAS)Joint PhD program, Computational Biology, Joint PhD program, Computational Biology at University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and SciencesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Zhejiang UniversityJoint PhD program, Computational Genomics and Proteomics, Joint PhD program, Computational Genomics and Proteomics at Fudan University
Github Skills (9)
seq10
splice10
computational-biology9
rna-seq9
genomics8
bioinformatics8
sampling2
phylogenetic-trees1
sequence1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
chanzhou/AutoCirc
May 2017 - Jan 2022
A computational toolkit of fast and automatical identification of back-splice junctions of potential circular RNAs (circRNAs) from RNA-seq data.
Contributions:85 commits, 6 PRs, 82 pushes in 4 years 8 months
rnaseqgenomicssplice-junctionsbioinformaticscircular
chanzhou/AST
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
sequencediversitymethodphylogenetic-treesast
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