Chenghao Zhu
Research Assistant Professor at UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChenghao Zhu is a Research Assistant Professor and bioinformatician with nine years of experience combining genomic and proteomic data analysis, software development, and visualization in cancer and nutrition research. Based at UCLA JCCC and now also affiliated with Sanford Burnham Prebys, he translates high-throughput experiments—16S-seq, shotgun proteomics, and metabolomics—into reproducible pipelines and publishable insights. He brings hands-on backend contributions to the well-known OpenMS project, improving enzymatic digestion and peptide indexing for more robust proteomics workflows. Trained with a PhD in Nutrition Sciences from UC Davis and prior experience building Shiny apps and teaching core biology courses, he bridges computational rigor with domain expertise. Colleagues rely on him for stabilizing complex codebases and turning messy clinical datasets into clear, actionable visualizations. He often combines methodological depth with practical software fixes that improve long-running open-source tools.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nutrition Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nutrition Sciences at University of California, DavisBachelor's degree, Applied Biological Science, Bachelor's degree, Applied Biological Science at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (8)
algorithms10
openms10
mass-spectrometry10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
proteins10
c119
c179
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMS/OpenMS
Feb 2022 - May 2022
The codebase of the OpenMS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 41 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chenghao primarily contributed to the core functionality of the OpenMS project by modifying the enzymatic digestion and peptide indexing modules. They implemented features related to enzyme modifications, specifically allowing "no cleavage" options for adapters and addressing N-terminal protein cleavage configurations. Moreover, the user fixed and updated existing code to correct variable names, missing parameters, and improve the overall stability and functionality.
windowsanalysesms-datalinuxc-plus-plus
zhuchcn/projects
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:42 commits, 94 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
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