Chuan Foo
Staff Engineer at Calico Life Sciences
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChuan Foo is a Staff Engineer and mission-driven scientist with 11+ years applying AI and deep learning to biology, healthcare, manufacturing and engineering, now focused on AI for molecular design at Calico. He brings a rare blend of computational biology and production software experience—from building clinically validated sequencing pipelines at Counsyl to leading data-efficient, robust ML research as Deputy Head of Machine Intellection at A*STAR. His work has been recognized with multiple best-paper awards and a national engineering prize for aircraft predictive maintenance, reflecting impact across both research and deployed industrial systems. A Stanford PhD with roots in probabilistic modeling and genomics, he excels at squeezing signal from small, expert-labeled datasets and translating models into practical, high-stakes applications. Notably, he moves fluidly between deep research and hands-on engineering, enabling translational advances in therapeutic discovery and manufacturing diagnostics.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (30)
seq10
bioinformatics9
multiprocessing8
pipeline8
bedtools8
memoization8
recurrent7
caching7
genome7
genomics6
parallel-computing6
python6
theano5
sensitivity-analysis5
recurrent-neural-networks5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kundajelab/bcolz
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
compressedcolumnardata-container
kundajelab/pyDNAbinding
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
sequencednagenomicsbioinformaticsexperimental-data
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