Ling-hong Hung
Research Assistant Professor at BioDepot LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLing-hong Hung is a Research Assistant Professor and computational biologist with a rare blend of training in developmental and structural biology, mathematics, and 35 years of hands-on software development. He builds highly optimized, parallelized bioinformatics and protein-structure tools—authoring GPU- and SIMD-accelerated C++ pipelines that have delivered 200x–2000x speedups for clustering and alignment tasks. As co-founder of BioDepot LLC and architect of the BioDepot-Workflow-Builder, he translates complex bioinformatics workflows into cloud-native, reproducible GUI-driven systems funded by NIH and NCI SBIR awards. His work spans serverless RNA-seq optimization, containerized GUI workflows, and novel scoring potentials for protein model discrimination, showing a knack for turning month-long analyses into hours or minutes on modest hardware. Based in Seattle, he pairs deep domain expertise with pragmatic engineering to scale big biological data processing, and often surprises collaborators by leveraging decades-old languages (Fortran, Perl) alongside modern GPU toolchains.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biochemistry at The University of Western OntarioBachelor’s Degree, Molecular Biology and Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Molecular Biology and Mathematics at University of Toronto
English, Chinese, French, German
Github Skills (23)
docker10
bioinformatics10
wdl10
jetbrains8
remote-development7
ide7
provisioning7
devcontainer7
gitpod6
vscode6
disposable6
theia6
code-review6
editor5
fiji5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Biodepot-LLC/workflows
Dec 2020 - Sep 2023
Workflows made with Biodepot-workflow-builder
Contributions:48 PRs, 123 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
workflowsbuilderworkflow
lhhunghimself/fastBMA
Apr 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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