Jun Ding
Assistant Professor at McGill University
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJun Ding is an assistant professor and computational bioinformatics researcher with nine years of experience building bioinformatics tools and software, currently based at McGill after a long research tenure at UCF and a postdoctoral role at Carnegie Mellon. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, he specializes in NGS analysis, motif finding, microRNA target prediction, and protein docking, and has developed multiple widely used resources in the lab. He blends academic rigor with hands-on software engineering to deliver reproducible, impactful tools that help colleagues accelerate biological discovery. Known for asking "why" as much as "how," he brings curiosity and a practical mindset to bridging computational methods and real-world biological problems.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Central Florida
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
rna-seq10
spatial-transcriptomics10
bioinformatics10
gene-expression10
dimensionality-reduction10
clustering10
python9
data-visualization9
data-integration7
inference6
data-analysis1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
phoenixding/tbsp
Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
Trajectory Inference Based on SNP information.
Contributions:48 commits, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 3 years 3 months
inference
phoenixding/scdiff
May 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:6 releases, 139 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 2 months
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