Darren Liu
Doctoral Student at UChicago Computational Biology Outreach
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Liu is a PhD candidate in Biophysics at the University of Chicago with nine years of research and full-stack development experience bridging computational biology and lab automation. He builds automated workflows that combine molecular evolution experiments, liquid handling, and image segmentation to probe protein evolvability, and develops modeling families to identify key evolutionary parameters. His background includes molecular dynamics, spatial transcriptomics image segmentation with OpenCV and PyTorch, and RNA-seq analysis on HPC, reflecting strong computational and experimental fluency. Darren also teaches computational biology to K–12 students through UChicago outreach, showing a commitment to science education and community engagement. Based in Chicago, he blends software engineering practices (GitHub-based workflows) with hands-on wet-lab insight to translate complex biological questions into reproducible, data-driven pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics at University of ChicagoBachelor's degree, Chemistry: Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree, Chemistry: Biochemistry at Boston UniversityProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dArmadillo/HackTO
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
HackTO Project.
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
hackto
Daepicren/minesweeper
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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