Shawn Yang
PhD Student at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Yang is a PhD student in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences at Columbia University with a strong foundation from a B.A. in Biological Sciences at USC. He has focused undergraduate research experience in genetics and synthetic genomics under Dr. Ian Ehrenreich, exploring gene and molecular evolution, quantitative genetics, and genomics. Currently transitioning from hands-on synthetic genomics work to doctoral research, he combines experimental wet-lab skills with quantitative and computational thinking. Based in Los Angeles and now at Columbia, he is active in graduate community organizing as a GSO executive board member. With a decade of experience in lab settings despite being early-career, he brings uncommon depth for his stage—particularly in synthetic approaches to dissect genotype–phenotype relationships. He can be reached at shyang@usc.edu for collaborations in molecular evolution, quantitative genetics, or synthetic biology.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. in Biological Sciences, B.A. in Biological Sciences at University of Southern CaliforniaPhD in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences, PhD in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences at Columbia UniversityGithub contributions (5)
yangshaun/AutoAnswerBot
Jan 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
yangshaun/ML_NeuralNet
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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