Chongzhi Zang
Director Of Computational Genomics
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolChongzhi Zang is Director of Computational Genomics at the UVA Cancer Center and an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, bringing 11 years of postdoctoral and faculty experience translating computational biology into cancer genomics insights. Trained in physics (PhD, The George Washington University) with postdoctoral computational biology work at Harvard, he combines quantitative rigor with biological intuition to build and lead cross-disciplinary research teams. His lab focuses on functional genomics and epigenomics, and he is actively recruiting postdocs to advance computational methods in cancer research. Having progressed from NIH and Dana-Farber research fellowships to academic leadership, he uniquely blends hands-on algorithm development with mentorship and program-building in an academic medical setting.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral training, Computational Biology, Postdoctoral training, Computational Biology at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Peking UniversityBeijing No.4 High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
bioinformatics6
ecology6
genomics6
biology5
chip-seq2
seq1
scale1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
czang/czang.github.io
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:17 pushes in 3 years 3 months
cphg/compgen
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Course website and slides for BIMS 8106, Foundations of Computational Genomics
Contributions:2 PRs, 82 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
foundationsbiologygenomicsbioinformaticscourse-website
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