Liangliang Gao
Sr. Research Scholar at North Carolina State University
Manhattan, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiangliang Gao is a Sr. Research Scholar with 11 years of experience applying genetics, statistics, and bioinformatics to improve disease resistance and crop traits, currently based at the Plants for Human Health Institute in Manhattan, Kansas. He led pioneering wheat genomics work—building the first wheat genome and pan-genome at Kansas State—and performed deep population genomics that traced origins of key quality genes. His work spans academia and industry, from RNA‑seq studies of plant–microbe interactions to machine learning models for human COVID‑ARDS diagnosis and an awarded NASA SBIR program in metagenomics. Trained with a PhD in Plant Pathology and a graduate certificate in Statistics, he combines rigorous statistical skills with practical genomics tool development (see his GitHub) to accelerate trait discovery and translational agricultural innovation.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Plant Pathology Genetics Genomics Breeding Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Plant Pathology Genetics Genomics Breeding Bioinformatics at University of MinnesotaGraduate Certificate Statistics, Graduate Certificate Statistics at Kansas State UniversityM.S Crop Genetics and Breeding, M.S Crop Genetics and Breeding at China Agricultural UniversityB.S Biological Science, B.S Biological Science at Hebei University
English, mandarian chinese
Github Skills (5)
samtools8
bcftools8
python6
blast4
sequence-alignment3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wheatgenetics/owwc
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
repository for code used in analysis of open wild wheat consortium
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year
wheatpythonconsortiumwild
umngao/misc_R_codes
Mar 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:162 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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