Liang-bo Wang

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Liang-bo Wang is a bioinformatics scientist with 13 years of experience translating multi-omics data into clinically actionable insights for personalized cancer therapies. At Moderna he led development and validation of regulatory-compliant NGS and Nextflow pipelines for individualized neoantigen vaccine programs, driving QC metrics and tumor characterization that support regulatory review. His PhD work at Washington University combined mass spectrometry, single-cell and spatial technologies to interrogate tumor heterogeneity and contributed to major consortia such as TCGA, CPTAC and HTAN. A skilled software engineer and open-source contributor, he has worked on tooling and workflow projects including Snakemake backend improvements and conda/bioconda ecosystems, blending production-grade engineering with rigorous biological analysis. Based in Cambridge, MA, he pairs deep computational expertise with practical pipeline development, and is active as a speaker and organizer in technical communities.

13 years of coding experience

2 years of employment as a software developer

Master’s Degree, Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, Master’s Degree, Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics at National Taiwan University

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational and Systems Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational and Systems Biology at Washington University in St. Louis

Chinese, Japanese, English

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (10)

workflow-management10

snakemake10

backend10

python10

back-end-development10

kubernetes-pods9

kubernetes9

linux6

macos6

Programming languages (20)

JavaC++CSSCRustCMakeTeXCommon Lisp

Github contributions (5)

snakemake/snakemake

Aug 2017 - Nov 2017

This is the development home of the workflow management system Snakemake. For general information, see

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:5 commits in 3 months

Contributions summary:Liang-bo's primary contribution involves implementing and integrating the `name` property for the `GS.RemoteObject` in the snakemake project, indicating backend development efforts related to the Google Cloud Storage (GS) remote object functionalities. They also added the `ratelimiter` dependency to the project, suggesting involvement in optimizing the project's backend and/or handling external API interactions. Furthermore, the user has also contributed to the KubernetesExecutor for the project.

management-systemworkflow-management-systemgeneral-informationreproducibilitysnakemake

conda-forge/elementpath-feedstock

Jun 2018 - Mar 2025

A conda-smithy repository for elementpath.

Contributions:37 PRs, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 9 months

condasmithy

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