Chunyu Zhao
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChunyu Zhao is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience in microbiome research and precision bioinformatics. She has led development of widely used pipelines including MIDAS2, co-developed Sunbeam, and created Nanoflow for nanopore whole-genome sequencing, blending production-grade software engineering with domain research. At Chan Zuckerberg Biohub she advances MWAS and other microbiome analyses in Katie Pollard’s lab, translating complex datasets into reproducible, scalable workflows. Trained as an engineer with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, she combines systems thinking from electrical engineering with hands-on sequencing analytics. Outside the lab she’s applied her coaching energy as a former BODYCOMBAT instructor, an unexpected thread that reflects her drive to motivate teams and persist through challenging problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Drexel UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Dalian University of Technology
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (57)
snakemake10
forge10
microbiome10
bioinformatics10
bacteria10
metagenomics10
reproducible-research9
sequencing9
comparative-genomics9
genomics9
population-genetics9
extensible9
pipeline8
conda8
cytoscapejs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zhaoc1/sunbeam_databases
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
zhaoc1/nanoflow
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Bioinformatics pipeline for nanopore sequencing data
Contributions:81 commits, 5 PRs, 102 pushes in 10 months
pipelinesequencing-datananoporebioinformatics-pipelinesequencing
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