Chiam Ng
Sr. Computational Biologist
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChiam Ng is a senior computational biologist with nine years of experience building predictive ML and mechanistic models to accelerate synthetic biology, currently leading efforts at X, the moonshot factory. He combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering, taking projects from model development through strain engineering and production deployment. His recent work focuses on end-to-end ML pipelines (PyTorch, Vertex AI, Hydra) that turn heterogeneous multi-omics data into actionable biological insights. Chiam also spans the full software lifecycle—lab data engineering, LIMS and BigQuery integrations, DBTL automation, and shipping scientific apps (Flask/Pyramid) to production. He brings a rare mix of academic rigor (PhD) and industrial impact from roles at Amyris and research positions, enabling pragmatic solutions that bridge wet lab and ML systems. Based in Mountain View, he’s known for turning noisy experimental data into reproducible, deployable pipelines that speed biological design cycles.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Korea UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Penn State University
Github Skills (26)
python-interface10
mathematical-programming9
nonlinear-optimization9
scip9
optimization9
ray8
python8
reinforcement-learning8
gurobi8
cython8
parallel8
pytorch7
java7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
maranasgroup/Optimization_Methods_in_Metabolic_Networks
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
maranasgroup/optstoic-python
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:35 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
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