Jie Zheng
Software Developer Bioinformatician
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJie Zheng is a software developer and bioinformatician with 14 years of experience building ontology-driven applications and large-scale graph data models for academic research environments. Based in Philadelphia, Jie blends a biology PhD background with a master's in computer science to integrate heterogeneous biomedical data into unified semantic models using Java/OWL-API and graph platforms like Stardog and GraphDB. He has a strong track record at research institutions including the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, translating complex domain knowledge into production-ready pipelines and tools. Jie also applies machine learning and text-mining techniques such as clustering and text classification to extract insights from unstructured data, enabling richer ontology curation and discovery. Colleagues value his rare combination of deep ontological expertise and practical software engineering that bridges research and deployable systems.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Towson UniversityBachelor's degree, Biology, General, Bachelor's degree, Biology, General at Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Queen's University
Github Skills (50)
open-science10
ontologies10
ontology10
semantic-web10
open-source10
metadata10
geneontology10
microbiome10
knowledge-graph10
anatomy10
bfo10
bioinformatics10
owl10
monarchinitiative10
ecology9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
biobanking/biobanking
Oct 2014 - Jun 2022
Ontology for Biobanking
Contributions:1 review, 84 commits, 1 PR in 7 years 9 months
obofoundry
OGMS/ogms
Feb 2016 - Apr 2022
Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/ogms
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 3 months
obofoundry
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