Danying Shao
Research And Development Engineer at Pennsylvania State University
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDanying Shao is a Research and Development Engineer based in State College, PA, with a decade of experience bridging data science, high-performance computing, databases, and web development. Trained as a biophysicist with a Ph.D. from UC San Diego and a B.S. from Peking University, she applies rigorous scientific methods to engineering problems and production systems. At Pennsylvania State University she progressed from Computational Scientist to Senior Analyst and now R&D Engineer, driving computational projects that blend scalable HPC workflows with data-driven applications. Her background includes industry experience building big-data, gamified performance platforms at a VC-backed startup, giving her product-minded perspective on analytics. Danying is comfortable moving between research code and production-grade systems, often optimizing database and compute stacks for throughput and reproducibility. Colleagues find her blend of academic depth and practical engineering useful for turning complex models into usable, maintainable tools.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Peking University
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Github Skills (18)
genome10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
seq9
sequencing8
identifier8
science5
preprocessing5
statistics4
user-guide4
pipeline4
python3
docker3
workflow-engine2
data-science2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
obrien-lab/aip_web_docker
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
RiboA: Ribo-Seq A-site Identifier
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 126 pushes in 2 years 9 months
identifierseq
seqcode/pegr
Nov 2015 - Dec 2022
Platform for Eukaryotic Genome Regulation
Contributions:3 releases, 916 commits, 18 PRs in 7 years 2 months
bioinformaticsgenomegenomicsregulation
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