Denghui Chen
Graduate Student Researcher
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDenghui Chen is a bioinformatics and systems biology researcher with eight years of experience bridging computational genetics, genomics, and microbiome science. Currently a PhD student and Graduate Student Researcher at UC San Diego’s Palmer Lab, he focuses on long-read computational genetics and has built and optimized genotyping pipelines in clinical research settings. With a background in computer engineering and practical machine learning and web development from the Center for Microbiome Innovation, he pairs strong software engineering skills with domain expertise in sequencing and population genetics. Based in San Diego, he brings a pragmatic, pipeline-first mindset to turn complex genomic data into reproducible analyses, and his trajectory shows a consistent shift from engineering foundations toward specialized computational biology innovation.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoComputer Science, Computer Science at College of San Mateo
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (41)
genome9
bioinformatics9
microbiome9
computational-biology9
genomics8
sequencing8
genetic8
imputation8
data-structures6
webapp6
science6
python6
effort6
sequence5
nodejs5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Palmer-Lab-UCSD/HS-Rats-Genotyping-Pipeline
Nov 2021 - Apr 2025
Heterogeneous Stock Rats Genotyping Pipeline from UCSD Palmer Lab
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 5 months
ratsheterogeneouspipelinegenotypingstock
Deeeeen/EBI_SRA_Downloader
Nov 2019 - Jul 2022
A tool that allows users to efficiently fetch studies from the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) and the Sequence Read Archive (SRA).
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
sequencesraeuropeanarchivefetch
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