Pengyao Ping
NHMRC Grant-Funded Research Associate
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPengyao Ping is an NHMRC grant-funded research associate and bioinformatician based in Adelaide with seven years’ experience integrating computational methods and large-scale biomedical data. He combines a doctoral background in biomathematics/bioinformatics with hands-on expertise in genome- and protein-wide association studies, pharmacogenetics, and epidemiology, working with UK Biobank and All of Us cohorts. His work bridges machine-learning, advanced statistics, and clinical insight to investigate genetic and proteomic predictors of treatment response in psychiatric and complex disease contexts. Previously he led engineering and research teams applying blockchain concepts, graph neural networks, and supercomputing interfaces—skills he leverages to design reproducible, scalable analyses. Colleagues value his ability to translate between computational rigor and clinical collaboration, and he often seeks novel data linkages that reveal nonobvious biological mechanisms.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor's Degree Biomathematics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor's Degree Biomathematics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University of Technology SydneyMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science and Technology, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science and Technology at Xiangtan University
Github Skills (39)
blast10
package-management10
samtools10
conda10
bioinformatics10
fasta10
bioconda10
bam9
sequence-analysis9
fm-index9
sequence-alignment9
fastq9
seqan8
sequence8
api8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Jappy0/NBCLDA
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:50 commits, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
Jappy0/bioconda-recipes
Apr 2023 - Jun 2024
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:4 PRs, 113 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 1 month
orangerecipescondabiocondabioinformatics
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