Chuankai Cheng
Graduate Research Assistant
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChuankai Cheng is a computationally-minded marine biologist and PhD candidate in Los Angeles with a decade of experience bridging wet-lab microbiology and quantitative modeling. He has driven reproducible, open-source tool development—such as a Python pipeline for flow cytometry and genome-scale metabolic modeling code used in high-impact publications—and improved SAR11 cultivation yields 100-fold through careful experimental optimization. Cheng integrates multi-omics, mathematical models, and machine learning to reveal systems-level principles of bacterial growth and cell-cycle regulation, presenting his work at ASM and Gordon conferences. He has led and mentored teams in academic settings and contributed equally to a Nature Communications study on metabolic function decomposition, highlighting a rare combination of hands-on culturing prowess and computational rigor.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, summa cum laude, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, summa cum laude at Northeastern University (CN)University of California, San DiegoExchange Student for working with the Bachelor End Project, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 8/10, Exchange Student for working with the Bachelor End Project, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 8/10 at Eindhoven University of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Guangzhou Zhixin High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (17)
python3
biology3
consumption2
spectra2
javascript2
visualization2
scoring2
derived2
d3js2
bioinformatics2
sequence-alignment1
database-sequence1
data-visualization1
sequence1
database1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thrash-lab/sparse-growth-curve
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:146 commits, 130 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
ahoiching/FDM
May 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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