Kai Zhang
Assistant Professor at Westlake University
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Zhang is an assistant professor and computational biologist with 12 years of experience developing systems biology approaches to decipher gene regulation from single-cell genomics. Trained with a PhD in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego and shaped by postdoctoral work at UC San Diego School of Medicine, he builds and applies methods to map transcriptional regulatory elements, reconstruct gene regulatory networks, and pinpoint driver genes across diseases and developmental processes. Based in San Diego and now leading a research group at Westlake University, he blends wet-lab intuition from his biochemistry background with computational rigor to translate complex single-cell data into mechanistic insights. His work emphasizes integrative, network-level analyses that reveal regulatory architecture not apparent from bulk assays, making him adept at finding subtle drivers of cell-state transitions.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster of Science (MS) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Master of Science (MS) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Xiamen University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (128)
python10
seq10
deep-learning10
transcriptomics10
haskell10
union10
ml10
hackage10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
igraph10
single-cell-genomics10
machine-learning10
chip-seq10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Taiji-pipeline/bio-pipelines
Jul 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 1 month
kaizhang/bioinformatics-toolkit
Apr 2014 - Aug 2022
Contributions:295 commits, 192 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 6 months
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