Liye Zhang
Assistant Professor at ShanghaiTech University
Pudong, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolLiye Zhang is an Assistant Professor and bioinformatician with 12 years of experience applying next-generation sequencing to clinical cancer research, translating RNA/DNA data into molecular classifiers that inform patient stratification. Trained with a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Penn State and seasoned by a postdoc at Boston University School of Medicine, he focuses on the functional impact of genetic and epigenetic variation in human disease. He combines strong Python skills and hands-on experience with Illumina and SOLiD platforms to develop reproducible pipelines and predictive models for driver mutation discovery. Based in Pudong, Shanghai, he leads bioinformatics efforts at ShanghaiTech University while maintaining a lab toolkit presence on GitHub under "Zhang Lab Bioinformatics Tools." Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous computational methods with clinical relevance and for prioritizing interpretable signatures over black-box predictions. His background across microbial ecology, developmental biology, and cancer genomics gives him an uncommon systems-level view of genome function.
11 years of coding experience
Shijiazhuang No. 1 middle schoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cell and Developmental Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cell and Developmental Biology at Penn State Universitybachelor, Life Science, bachelor, Life Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (21)
cocoa-touch6
affinetransform6
iphone6
transformation6
seq6
removal6
objective-c6
ios6
user-interface6
class-method6
rna-seq5
bioinformatics4
artifact3
topological-data-analysis1
connectivity1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bioliyezhang/PTI
Sep 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 11 months
bioliyezhang/RAAR
May 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 11 months
alignmentbioinformaticsremovalrna-seqseq
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