Farica Zhuang
PhD Candidate
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFarica Zhuang is a PhD candidate in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania with nine years of industry and research experience building ML-driven systems. Her current research, advised by Dr. Li Shen, focuses on developing large language models tailored to RNA structures and variants, bridging computational biology and deep learning. She has applied her engineering skills at Google and SAP and brings practical software experience from internships and roles at Teradata and Duke. With a strong quantitative foundation from UC San Diego (Applied Mathematics) and Duke (MS Computer Science), she combines rigorous theory with production-minded development. An educator as well as a researcher, she has taught intro computer science courses and maintains a professional portfolio at faricazjj.github.io.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Duke UniversityUniversity of California San DiegoAssociate's degree, Mathematics, Associate's degree, Mathematics at Foothill CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Sciences at University of Pennsylvania
English, Indonesian, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
rna-seq10
seq10
poly10
effort9
open-science9
benchmark9
bioinformatics9
genomics4
dynamic-analysis2
pipeline2
binding2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
faricazjj/faricazjj.github.io
Feb 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 8 months
faricazjj/WhereTo
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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