Chao Pang
Senior Data Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChao Pang is a Senior Data Engineer with 15 years of experience building data integration and semantic solutions for biomedical research, currently based in New York and transitioning from Columbia University Irving Medical Center to Formation Bio. He specializes in text mining, ontologies, semantic web technologies and pragmatic automation to reconcile heterogeneous clinical and biobank datasets so researchers can combine and analyze data faster. His PhD in Medical Informatics and hands-on work at EMBL-EBI inform a rare blend of deep domain knowledge and production engineering—programmatically generating ontologies and wiring OWL-based mappings into pipelines. Known for tackling terminology drift rather than insisting on one standard, he focuses on tools that enable retrospective harmonization and scale across institutions.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Medical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Medical Informatics at University of GroningenMaster's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at Columbia UniversityMaster's degree Bioinformatics, Master's degree Bioinformatics at University of LeicesterBachelor’s Degree Biotechnology, Bachelor’s Degree Biotechnology at University of Science and Technology Beijing
English, Chinese
Github Skills (38)
genetics10
transformers10
javascript10
freemarker10
machine-learning10
data-management10
temporal-data10
java10
deep-learning10
bert10
bioinformatics10
common-data-format9
build-process8
in-progress8
computation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
knatarajan-lab/cehrgpt
May 2024 - Jul 2026
CEHR-GPT: Generating Electronic Health Records with Chronological Patient Timelines
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 65 PRs in 2 years 2 months
gpt
cumc-dbmi/cehrbert
Aug 2020 - Mar 2023
CEHR-BERT: Incorporating temporal information from structured EHR data to improve prediction tasks
Contributions:36 releases, 19 reviews, 235 commits in 2 years 7 months
bertdisease-predictionehr-datapretrained-language-modeltransformers
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