Jing Zhang
Co-Founder at Activate
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJing Zhang is a Cambridge-based synthetic biologist and entrepreneur with a decade of experience combining wet-lab and computational approaches to design and engineer microbial communities for climate-forward biomanufacturing. As co-founder of Anthology and an Activate fellow, she translates fundamental research on root microbiomes, acetogenic CO2-fixers, nitrogen-fixing microbes, and filamentous-fungi hosts into scalable bioengineering solutions. Her academic training (PhD in Bioinformatics, MS in Microbiology) and prior lab work at MIT, UMass Amherst, and BU underpin a rare fluency across microbial ecology, genetic circuit design, and bioinformatics. Founder of Elefam, she also has broad impact in conservation leadership and public outreach—mentoring 70+ fellows and reaching millions through media—bringing unusual cross-sector experience in science, advocacy, and venture-building.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Biochemistry, Bachelor's Degree Biochemistry at Smith CollegeM.S. Microbiology, M.S. Microbiology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD Bioinformatics, PhD Bioinformatics at Boston University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (19)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
ml9
seq9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
rna-seq7
bioinformatics6
r-package5
r4
mri3
shiny3
connectivity3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jzhangc/git_RBioMIR
Jun 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:61 commits, 3 PRs, 132 pushes in 6 years 5 months
mirnabioinformaticsrna-seqanalysis-packageseq
jzhangc/git_nmt_commandline
Jan 2019 - Jun 2026
Contributions:379 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 6 months
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