Chen Wang
Senior Research Software Engineer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
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Top SchoolChen Wang is a Senior Research Software Engineer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications with a decade of experience building full-stack research applications that translate environmental science into usable tools. With dual M.S. degrees in Atmospheric Science and Bioenergy, he bridges domain expertise and software engineering to lead projects ranging from a globally used Social Media Macroscope science gateway to DOE and ARPA-H funded climate and medical applications. He engineers Python- and JavaScript-driven platforms, designs databases and RESTful services, and deploys scalable pipelines on Docker and AWS while collaborating closely with researchers to integrate NLP, ML, and analytics. Chen has a track record of delivering impact-driven software—e.g., tools for direct air capture site planning and permafrost thaw monitoring—that extend research into policy and industry use cases. Notably, his background in numerical modeling and field measurement informs his pragmatic approach to data-intensive problems, making him effective at turning complex scientific models into user-facing web services. Based in Urbana-Champaign, he enjoys applying full-stack skills to broaden the reach of scientific research through accessible web gateways.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Atmospheric and Environmental Sicence, 3.78, Master of Science (M.S.), Atmospheric and Environmental Sicence, 3.78 at University of Science and Technology of ChinaUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (71)
python10
infrastructure10
apply10
organize10
jupyter10
jupyterlab-extension10
bus10
loss10
jupyterlab10
annotate9
jupyter-widget9
distribute9
hazard9
networked9
datasets9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
IllinoisSocialMediaMacroscope/smm-bae
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
BAE -- Brand Analytics Environment
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
brandanalyticsbaebrand-analytics
IN-CORE/incore-services
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
IN-CORE Web Services is a component of IN-CORE. IN-CORE uses a service oriented architecture with a REST API for communicating with the different services.
Contributions:5 releases, 142 reviews, 165 commits in 3 years 5 months
apiservice-oriented-architectureweb-servicesrestin-core
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