Ming-dao Chia
Technical Officer at The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolMing-dao Chia is a technical officer at The Australian National University with 11 years’ experience blending plant genomics, bioinformatics and hands-on engineering to support climate-adaptive phenomics research. He designs and 3D-prints bespoke lab equipment, runs nanopore sequencing and builds analysis pipelines and utilities in R, Python, Perl and Haskell to accelerate plant science and molecular farming projects. His work spans field and lab—using remotely piloted aircraft for data-driven ecological research and contributing to COVID-19 sequencing and a LAMP rapid-test kit—demonstrating a rare mix of experimental, computational and fabrication skills. Trained in cell and molecular biology with surgical internship experience at Stanford, he pairs rigorous wet-lab know-how with maker-grade additive manufacturing and web/dev skills, plus eclectic certifications from scuba diving to short-term trading.
10 years of coding experience
Australian National UniversityVisiting Undergraduate, Visiting Undergraduate at Brown UniversityHigh School and Pre-Medical Surgical internship, High School and Pre-Medical Surgical internship at Stanford University School of MedicineOpen Source Programming Certificate, Open Source Programming Certificate at O'Reilly School of TechnologyCertificate in Short-Term Trading, Certificate in Short-Term Trading at New York Institute of FinanceJunior Advanced Open Water Diver, Junior Advanced Open Water Diver at Professional Association of Scuba Divers (PADI)Undergraduate Studies, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies, Undergraduate Studies, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies at Green River CollegeFoundation degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Foundation degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at ANU College
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Github Skills (45)
balloon10
scraper10
photogrammetry10
timetable10
kite10
3d-models10
structure-from-motion10
point-cloud10
python8
drones8
netcdf6
plot6
r6
video-download5
ffmpeg5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mdchia/echo360-download-tool
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes in 10 months
pythonvideo-downloadecho360video-recordingsvideo
mdchia/anutimetable
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Intuitive timetable builder for the Australian National University.
Contributions:28 commits, 6 PRs, 57 pushes in 5 months
nationalbuilderintuitiveaustraliantimetable-builder
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