Fan Gao
Senior Principal Scientist at Lyterian Therapeutics
Burlingame, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFan Gao is a Senior Principal Scientist with eight years of focused experience building high-performance bioinformatics infrastructure and novel computational workflows for drug discovery and academic research. With a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and deep expertise across NGS, single-cell omics, epigenomics, and immune repertoire analysis, Fan has led bioinformatics teams and resource centers at Caltech, Broad Institute, and MIT before joining Lyterian Therapeutics. He codes across R, Python, Rust, and Shiny to deliver scalable pipelines and interactive tools, and his work spans both algorithm development and practical assay-supporting analyses. Notably, Fan blends neuroscience and immunology domain knowledge with production-grade pipeline engineering, enabling translational insights from complex multi-omic and imaging datasets. Based in Burlingame, CA, he maintains an active publication record and a concise GitHub bio focused on bioinformatics, underscoring a profile that bridges research rigor and production delivery.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biomedical Engineering (Biophysics and Computational Biology), PhD Biomedical Engineering (Biophysics and Computational Biology) at Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical SciencesBS Chemical Physics, BS Chemical Physics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaHigh School
Github Skills (42)
spatial-transcriptomics9
rna-seq9
kallisto8
seq8
binder8
simpleitk7
jupyter-notebook6
bioinformatics6
single-cell-analysis6
image-analysis6
gene-expression5
spatial-analysis5
legion5
jupyter5
single-cell-genomics4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
caltech-bioinformatics-resource-center/Guttman_Ismagilov_Labs
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 10 months
gaofan83/single_cell_perturb_seq
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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