David Tsang
Digital Research Technician Champion at STEP-UP
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Tsang is a multidisciplinary research engineer combining 18 years of hands-on experience across design, biology, and engineering to build AI- and robotics-enabled high-throughput automation pipelines for synthetic biology. Currently a Digital Research Technician Champion and PhD student at Imperial College London, he develops lab automation and machine learning solutions that expand experimental design spaces in bottom-up synthetic cell engineering. His background spans industrial automation (Navya), advanced manufacturing and personalized medical design at Dyson, and an MIT collaboration on automation for synthetic biology, reflecting a rare blend of academic depth and production-facing engineering. A computational ecologist by training, he brings systems-level thinking from macroecology and conservation to optimize experimental workflows and data infrastructure. Notably, he promotes robust data management and software practices across research groups, bridging technical rigor with practical lab deployment.
18 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Biology at Imperial College LondonBaccalauréat Général - Section Européenne, Filière Scientifique, Baccalauréat Général - Section Européenne, Filière Scientifique at Lycée Français de Shanghai
French, English, Chinese, German, Japanese
Github Skills (177)
sphinx-doc10
python10
wave10
metadata10
datasets10
knitr10
publish10
waveform10
spatial10
validation10
audio10
music10
r-package10
sphinx10
jupyterlab-extension10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
davidorme/Masters_GIS
Oct 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 1 PR in 4 years 1 month
cran/caper
Apr 2011 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 commits in 7 years 1 month
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