Niu Du
Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNiu Du is a Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer in San Diego with eight years of experience building cloud-native NGS pipelines, ML-driven analysis tools, and validation systems for clinical and drug-discovery settings. With a PhD from UC San Diego, Niu has moved fluidly between academia and industry—developing Bayesian toolkits for undersampled clinical data, ML models for assay classification, and weight-aware Negative Binomial estimators for ASO detection. He has led end-to-end pipeline design on GCP, containerized deployments, and CI/CD practices while cutting sequencing costs through automated oligo design and improving assay robustness for IVD products. Known for pragmatic mentorship and solid production instincts, he pairs deep statistical rigor with hands-on engineering to translate complex biological problems into reliable, auditable software. An uncommon thread in his work is integrating advanced probabilistic methods into practical pipelines that handle outliers and sparse datasets routinely encountered in real-world assays.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry at Ocean University of China
Github Skills (14)
barcodes7
bioinformatics6
rna-seq6
pypi5
fastq5
bioconda4
python4
pipeline3
sequencing3
data-visualization2
expression2
umi1
data-science1
pandas1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ndu-bioinfo/BayesCurveFit
Jan 2025 - Nov 2025
Enhancing Robustness of Curve Fitting in Drug Discovery Using Bayesian Inference
Contributions:8 releases, 11 PRs, 50 pushes in 9 months
ndu-bioinfo/Dap-Seq-pipeline
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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