Fan Z
Staff Bioinformatics Scientist
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFan Z is a Staff Bioinformatics Scientist with 11 years of experience applying full-stack bioinformatics and statistical genetics to production-grade NGS solutions. Based in San Diego and educated at the University of Michigan (PhD) and South China University of Technology, he leads DRAGEN-SV development at Illumina, focusing on highly accurate large-variant calling and computationally efficient statistical methods for big genomic datasets. His track record spans end-to-end tools deployed at scale—VerifyBamID2, DRAGMAP/DRAGEN-GATK, and DRAGEN-SV—and work ranging from population genetics to single-cell sequencing. Colleagues value his blend of technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and ability to translate research-grade methods into fast, robust production software. An often-overlooked strength is his background in optical mapping and practical variant-detection workflows from earlier roles at BGI and Ancestry, which informs his systems-level approach to complex variant calling.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts in Statistics Statistics, Master of Arts in Statistics Statistics at University of MichiganBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Genomics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Genomics and Computer Science at South China University of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (96)
package-management10
biostatistics10
bam10
bioconda10
conda10
ancestry10
genetics10
bioinformatics10
dna-sequences10
sequence10
genomics9
lasagne8
single-cell-genomics8
genomes7
scale7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Griffan/bioconda-recipes
Jul 2020 - Feb 2024
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 7 months
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
Griffan/YHap
Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 38 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
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