Summary
Shichen Wang is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis pipelines across academia and industry. He has steered clinical-grade pipeline development and AWS migrations at Ambry Genetics, and now applies his expertise to single-cell spatial genomics at Vizgen. Comfortable across Linux HPC and cloud environments, he codes fluently in Bash, Python, R and Perl and has deep familiarity with NGS algorithms, public databases and pipeline product ownership. His background includes large-scale plant and wheat genomics projects—contributing to multi-gigabase assemblies, exome-capture designs, and high-density SNP assays—which demonstrates an uncommon blend of population-scale genomics and clinical pipeline engineering. Based in College Station, Texas, he’s known as a collaborative fast learner who translates complex bioinformatics requirements into robust, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at Jilin University