Grant Cheng
Teaching Assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGrant Cheng is a data-driven mathematician and software practitioner with nine years of experience bridging statistics, bioinformatics, and full-stack development. Currently a Master's student in Mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier and a Teaching Assistant, he combines rigorous statistical training from the University of Waterloo with practical engineering—building insurance calculators in React/Python, deploying Flask apps to AWS, and validating OCR fields for production workflows. His research background includes predicting novel antimicrobial peptides using Linux and Python, reflecting a knack for turning biological questions into reproducible code. Past roles span data analysis, database administration, and fiscal data cleaning, showing versatility across nonprofit, corporate, and research settings. Long-term, he’s motivated to create work that’s beautiful, meaningful, and lasting, and is quietly building a public-facing project to synthesize civilization’s big ideas. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he brings a curious interdisciplinary mindset that pairs theoretical depth with product-minded implementation.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA Classics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Classics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (13)
microbiome10
effort8
python7
evolution5
machine-learning4
simulation4
genome2
sequencing2
transmission2
bioinformatics2
rna-seq2
genomics1
filtering1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cse110-sp23-group18/cse110-sp23-group18
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:28 PRs, 137 pushes, 32 branches in 1 month
amandahao/TranscriptionProject
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes in 2 days
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