Liuyang Wang
Associate Professor
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiuyang Wang is an Associate Professor and computational biologist with 11 years of experience specializing in bioinformatics, population genomics, and infectious disease research. Based at Duke University, he develops and applies statistical, machine learning, and high-throughput sequencing pipelines—including RNA-seq, single-cell, ChIP-seq and meta-GWAS tools such as CPAG/iCPAGdb—to translate omics data into biological insight. He combines deep expertise in population genetics and statistical inference with production-grade programming (Python, R, C/C++, Perl, MATLAB) and HPC/cluster environments (SGE, SLURM, Unix). His work spans human host–pathogen interaction, biomarker discovery, and evolutionary genomics, and he serves as an associate editor for Evolutionary Bioinformatics. Outside the lab he emphasizes reproducible, open-tool development and balances research with family life as a husband and father in Durham, NC.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Genetics and Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Genetics and Ecology at Chinese Academy of Sciences
English, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
r-package7
bioinformatics6
genomics6
cran6
single-cell-genomics4
pipeline4
wasp3
discovery3
eigen2
gpu1
mapper1
signal-processing1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lw157/PopulationGenetics
Dec 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:38 pushes in 4 years 9 months
tbalmat/iCPAGdb
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
Resources for the iCPAGdb web app
Contributions:4 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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