Chunlei Wu
Professor at Scripps Research
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolChunlei Wu is a Professor at Scripps Research with 15 years of experience at the intersection of bioinformatics, computational biology and genomics, combining academic leadership with hands-on software engineering and cloud computing expertise. Trained with a Ph.D. in biomathematics and biostatistics from UTHealth Houston, he has progressed through investigator and faculty roles to lead computational efforts that translate large-scale genomic data into biological insight. His work blends statistical rigor with practical engineering—building reproducible pipelines and cloud-native tools to enable genomic discovery. Based in San Diego, he directs teams that bridge molecular medicine and scalable computation, often tackling noisy, high-dimensional datasets where classical methods fall short. Colleagues note his ability to move between deep algorithmic detail and strategic research direction, making him effective at turning complex statistical models into usable software for biologists.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Nanjing UniversityPh.D. Biomathmetics and biostatistics, Ph.D. Biomathmetics and biostatistics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
Github Skills (174)
variants10
python10
annotations10
swagger10
metadata10
oas10
python-client10
rest-api10
openapi10
connected10
tornado10
api10
sdk10
swagger-ui10
rest10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
biothings/biothings_client.py
Feb 2017 - Dec 2022
This is a generic Python client for BioThings APIs
Contributions:1 release, 14 reviews, 94 commits in 5 years 11 months
pythonbiothingsgenericpython-client
SuLab/biogps_core
Sep 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:30 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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