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 (13)
cran6
differential-expression5
visualization5
discovery4
bioinformatics4
systems-biology4
eigen3
single-cell-genomics3
wasp3
pipeline3
transcriptomics2
gpu1
signal-processing1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lw157/PopulationGenetics
Dec 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:38 pushes in 4 years 9 months
tbalmat/iCPAGdb
Dec 2020 - May 2026
Resources for the iCPAGdb web app
Contributions:4 PRs, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 5 months
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