Jack Fu
Senior Scientist II, Statistical Genetics
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Fu is a Senior Scientist II in statistical genetics with 12 years of experience translating large-scale -omics data into insights about rare genetic variation and human disease. Trained as a PhD biostatistician at Johns Hopkins and formerly an instructor and postdoc at Harvard Medical School/Mass General, he led the largest rare-variant studies in autism and helped generate and QC rare CNVs for gnomAD. Now at Beam Therapeutics, he applies rigorous methods development across WGS, WES, and RNA-seq toward gene-editing therapies for genetic disease. His work is published in top genetics journals and blends deep statistical rigor with practical genomic data engineering—a combination that smooths the path from discovery to therapeutic development.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS) Statistics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Statistics at Duke UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
French, Chinese, Chinese, r, English, java, python, perl, sql, bash
Github Skills (31)
r-package10
seq10
bioconductor10
rna-seq10
differential-expression10
simulator9
genome9
bioinformatics9
genomics8
sequencing8
science6
spark-ml6
visa6
gatk5
spark5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JMF47/recountNNLSpaper
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
JMF47/MDTS
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:180 pushes, 28 branches, 4 comments in 10 months
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