James Chuang
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Oncology
South San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Chuang is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with nine years of experience translating complex genomic and molecular datasets into actionable insights for oncology and biomanufacturing. He builds reproducible analysis pipelines and statistical software using Python, R, Unix tooling, and workflow orchestration on clusters and cloud platforms to support assay development, pooled CRISPR screens, and digital PCR modeling. His background spans academic genomics at Harvard—analyzing TSS-seq, NET-seq, ChIP-seq and related assays—to industry roles at Freenome, 64x Bio, and now BillionToOne, giving him a rare blend of mechanistic understanding and production-grade data engineering. James is skilled at scientific communication and technical writing, enabling cross-functional translation between wet lab teams and engineering. He often couples Bayesian modeling with automated pipelines to turn noisy experimental readouts into robust metrics for decision making. Based in South San Francisco, he brings deep domain knowledge in transcriptional profiling and practical experience improving viral productivity and liquid biopsy assay performance.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University
Github Skills (27)
python10
package-management10
data-science10
machine-learning10
conda10
forge10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
bioinformatics10
bioconda9
snakemake7
conda-forge7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
james-chuang/james-chuang.github.io
Jun 2019 - Oct 2024
Minimal Mistakes GitHub Pages site starter
Contributions:17 pushes in 5 years 4 months
github-pages-sitemistakes
winston-lab/mnase-seq
May 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:174 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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