Gang Chen
Founder at WeGene
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolGang Chen is a founder and interdisciplinary leader with 15 years of experience building digital platforms that bring modern biomedical technologies to broader populations. He leads WeGene and dLife while holding academic and advisory roles—including Distinguished Professor at Chulalongkorn, supervisor at BGI College, and deputy director of a provincial bioinformatics lab—bridging entrepreneurship, population genomics, and machine learning. His background spans cloud and distributed systems, cancer genomics and big-data NLP prototypes for healthcare, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on computational research and product leadership. Trained with PhD-level work in computer science and ongoing PhD studies in future healthcare at Tsinghua, he frequently moves between labs, startups, and large-scale genomics operations to translate research into consumer and public-health applications. Notably, he combines institutional experience at BGI and UTMB with regional genomics initiatives like ThaiOmics, signaling a focus on scalable, population-aware bioinformatics solutions.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Not applied 中欧智慧医疗创业课程, Not applied 中欧智慧医疗创业课程 at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Future Healthcare, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Future Healthcare at Tsinghua UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at National University of Defense TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Central South UniversityVisiting Scientisit Bioinformatics, Visiting Scientisit Bioinformatics at The University of Texas Medical Branch
English, Chinese
Github Skills (27)
gnome9
immunology8
pair-programming8
reproducible-science7
version-control7
collaboration6
pipeline6
linux6
git-repository6
hacklang6
dropbox5
toolkits5
git-lfs5
libgit25
git4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gangchen/bgiR
Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:47 commits in 3 months
gangchen/I2P4B
Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:85 commits, 127 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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