Dexter Chen
Lecturer at Jinan University
Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolDexter Chen is a food scientist and nutritionist with eight years of academic training and eight years of professional experience spanning academia and industry. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and has led R&D work at General Mills where he delivered cost-saving formula optimizations across major cereal brands. As a lecturer and former associate professor at Jinan University, he combines hands-on molecular microbiology and animal model research with teaching and project management. His strengths include food safety, bioinformatics, quantitative data analysis, and translating laboratory findings into scalable product solutions. Dexter has a track record of community engagement and innovation—cofounding a student web studio and designing a low-cost food safety test distributed to local communities. Bilingual in English and Mandarin, he bridges international research and industry practice in food microbiology and nutrition.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.E.of Food Engineering, Food Science, Food Safety and Quality, Food Microbiology, 2003, B.E.of Food Engineering, Food Science, Food Safety and Quality, Food Microbiology, 2003 at Jinan UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
cldexter/Academic-Crawler
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:63 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
cldexter/-
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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