Richard White
Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Concord, North Carolina, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRichard White is an Associate Professor and founder with 11+ years blending academic leadership and entrepreneurial science, specializing in virology, multiomics, and computational biology. He leads research in multiomic characterization of complex microbiomes across environments—from microbialites to mammalian systems—translating deep wet-lab expertise (single-cell genomics, phage therapy, flow cytometry) into bioinformatics-driven insights. A PhD-trained virologist from UBC, Richard has progressed from sequencing manager roles in Quake’s lab to postdoctoral and research positions at PNNL and WSU, and now directs a lab at UNC Charlotte while running RAW Molecular Systems. His profile reflects a rare mix of hands-on molecular technique and computational analysis, with a track record of moving discovery toward practical applications in microbial therapeutics and environmental microbiology.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Molecular Virology, Masters of Science, Molecular Virology at California State University-East BayPhD, Microbiology & Immunology, PhD, Microbiology & Immunology at The University of British Columbia / UBC
Spanish
Github Skills (132)
snakemake10
genomes10
mer10
atlas10
metagenomics10
assembly10
genome-annotation10
genome-assembly9
computational-biology9
phyloseq9
meta9
bioinformatics9
genome9
pathogen9
minhash8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
raw937/atlas-original
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
infrastructuregenomic-binningatlasbinningbioinformatics
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.