Keren Zhou
Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeren Zhou is a Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist with ~8–9 years of hands-on experience building analysis pipelines, databases, and software for multi-omics sequencing at leading research institutions. She combines deep computational skills (Python, R, MySQL, Perl, Bash) with molecular biology expertise in transcription, splicing, RNA modifications, and chromatin assays to deliver publishable insights used in high-impact journals like Nature, Science Translational Medicine, NAR, and Cancer Cell. At City of Hope she led or co-led several major projects and platforms—ENCORI, ChIPBase v3.0, and PEALS—translating complex NGS data (ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, MeRIP-Seq, CLIP-Seq, Ribo-Seq, WGBS, etc.) into biological discoveries and therapeutic hypotheses. Now at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, she focuses on scalable bioinformatics solutions that bridge data integration, visualization, and reproducible pipelines for translational research. Colleagues value her mix of rigorous statistical analysis, software engineering, and project leadership that repeatedly turns computational methods into experimentally validated biology.
8 years of coding experience
Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Sun Yat-sen UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Sun Yat-Sen University
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (53)
algorithms10
scipy10
python10
seq10
scientific-computing10
chip-seq9
genomics8
cancer-genomics7
bioinformatics7
structural-variation7
dna-sequences6
orange6
libtorch6
complexheatmap6
genome6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kerenzhou062/Analysis-Tutorials
Jul 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:481 commits, 476 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
kerenzhou062/rriScan
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 release, 27 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 3 months
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