Khi Chua
APAC Bioinformatics Consulting Manager - Sequencing
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolKhi Chua is an experienced computational biologist and bioinformatics leader with a PhD in Future Healthcare and over a decade working at the intersection of genomics, sequencing technology, and quantitative physics. Currently APAC Bioinformatics Consulting Manager for sequencing, he has driven adoption of third-generation HiFi sequencing across research and clinical collaborations while building production-grade analysis workflows and mentoring regional talent. His background includes leading large-scale cancer genomics studies on cohorts of 500+ Asian lung cancer patients, developing distributed NGS pipelines on HPC and cloud, and transitioning research tools into R&D for clinical genome applications. Known for bridging deep quantitative methods (from molecular dynamics to metadynamics) with practical field support and open-source workflow development, he brings both hands-on technical delivery and strategic customer-facing leadership across APAC.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Future Healthcare, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Future Healthcare at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese, Malay
Github Skills (40)
structural-variation9
nextflow9
genomes9
pipeline9
bioinformatics9
delta9
genomics9
assembler8
bioconductor7
microbiome7
metagenomics7
bioconda7
sequence6
sequencing6
genome6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PacificBiosciences/HiFi-16S-workflow
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Nextflow pipeline to analyze PacBio HiFi full-length 16S data
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 197 commits in 8 months
deltanextflow-pipelinepipelinehifi16s
proteinosome/pb-16S-nf
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:103 pushes in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.