Peng He
Assistant Professor at University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPeng He is an interdisciplinary assistant professor based in San Francisco with a decade of experience at the intersection of computational, molecular, developmental and cell biology. Trained at Caltech (PhD) and The University of Hong Kong (BSc in statistics and biochemistry with a CS minor), he blends quantitative modeling and wet-lab expertise to tackle complex biological problems. His career spans leading research roles across top institutions—EMBL-EBI, Wellcome/CRUK Gurdon Institute, Wellcome Sanger Institute—and recent appointments at UCSF and Cambridge stem cell centers. Known for bridging bioinformatics and developmental biology, he brings both deep data science skills and hands-on experimental insight, enabling translational projects that require cross-disciplinary fluency. A frequent visitor-collaborator in premier labs, he often operates at the interface of method development and biological discovery rather than traditional single-lab specialization.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
to-do10
transcriptomics10
regl10
cran10
python10
seq10
single-cell-analysis10
rna-seq10
genomics10
variational-autoencoder10
plotly10
single-cell-genomics10
sequencing10
jupyter-notebook10
scanpy10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
brianpenghe/Luo_2021_piRNA
Mar 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 release, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
brianpenghe/fasta-scripts
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pythonfastafasta-filesprograms
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