Ning-yi Shao
Associate Professor
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolNing-yi Shao is an associate professor and computational biologist with 14 years of experience specializing in bioinformatics analyses of next-generation sequencing data, particularly RNA-seq and ChIP-seq applied to medicine and evolutionary questions. Trained as a physician and a PhD in computational biology, he bridges clinical insight and computational rigor from early clinical residency to postdoctoral work at Mount Sinai and Stanford. His academic trajectory includes faculty roles at the University of Macau and a sustained publication record visible on Google Scholar, reflecting translational and evolutionary genomics projects. Colleagues know him for pursuing "things interesting"—a curiosity-driven approach that fuels method development and biological discovery. Based in Palo Alto, he combines hands-on data analysis with mentoring and cross-disciplinary collaboration. An understated strength is his clinical background, which sharpens the biomedical relevance of his computational work.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology at CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational BiologyBachelor Clinical Medicine, Bachelor Clinical Medicine at Nanjing Medical University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (38)
cancer-genomics10
mining10
genomics10
comparative-genomics10
seq9
bioinformatics9
genome8
annotate8
python8
databases8
region8
visualization8
reader7
data-visualization7
flutter6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shenlab-sinai/region_analysis
Dec 2013 - Jun 2014
A python script used to annotate genomic intervals.
Contributions:54 commits, 2 comments in 6 months
pythonannotatepython-scriptbioinformaticsgenomic
ny-shao/ny-shao.github.io
Aug 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
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