Ruidong Li
Principal Scientist, Bioinformatics
Foster City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuidong Li is a Principal Scientist in Bioinformatics with a decade of experience building production-grade software and cloud platforms to accelerate NGS data analysis. Based in Foster City, he blends deep computational biology expertise (PhD, UC Riverside) with hands-on engineering—authoring R packages, Python modules, Nextflow workflows, and full-stack Dash/Shiny/React+Django applications. At Gilead Sciences he designed an automated end-to-end AWS platform for an NGS sequencing core, improving workflow efficiency and data analytics at scale. An active open-source maintainer of tools like GDCRNATools, CancerMIRNome, PCaDB and WebGEO, he pairs peer-reviewed publications in top computational biology journals with sustained community impact. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex bioinformatics methods into robust, reproducible pipelines and web services that support both research and production needs.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Bioinformatics, Ph.D Bioinformatics at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (5)
bioconductor10
gdc9
genomics9
bioinformatics9
inference3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rli012/rli012.github.io
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:220 commits, 354 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
rli012/BioinfoHub
Aug 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:226 commits, 223 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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