Mingxun Wang
Associate Professor
San Diego Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMingxun Wang is an assistant professor and founder with 16 years of experience building computational tools that accelerate mass spectrometry research in proteomics, metabolomics, and natural product discovery. He blends academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science from UCSD) with entrepreneurial drive, having founded Ometa Labs and WWomics to deliver scalable, user-focused software and algorithms for scientists. His graduate work helped create community infrastructure like GNPS and MassIVE, enabling crowdsourced spectral libraries and automated reanalysis of public datasets. Pragmatic about usability, he aims for software that delights researchers rather than frustrates them, favoring solutions that are both scalable and tightly aligned with user needs. Based in the San Diego area, he pairs deep algorithmic expertise with hands-on engineering, and he’s equally at home composing code, analyzing complex spectra, or playing music in his spare time.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (118)
ecology10
mass10
python10
graph-theory10
mass-spectrometry10
spectrum10
meta-analysis10
query-language10
network10
visualization10
cytoscapejs10
mkdocs10
javascript9
data-conversion9
metadata9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Wang-Bioinformatics-Lab/GNPS_DatasetCache
Jan 2021 - Aug 2025
Contributions:17 PRs, 85 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 7 months
mwang87/GNPS_CytoscapeFormatting
Jun 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 14 PRs, 114 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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