Shifa Zhang
Bioinformatics Research Assistant Engineer
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShifa Zhang is a versatile bioinformatics research engineer with a deep engineering pedigree: over 25 years in software and systems development, 19 years in telco and ASIC architecture, and recent specialization in homomorphic encryption and machine learning for genomic data. Currently at the Broad Institute working on rare disease genomics, she blends hands-on research implementation with prior leadership as a security lead and ASIC architect who pioneered line-rate FPGA Ethernet/IP processing and led Huawei’s first successful network processor. She transitioned from advanced silicon (65nm–10nm) and product marketing in global markets to graduate studies in Informatics at Northeastern, bringing uncommon cross-domain fluency in hardware, networking, and computational biology. A natural troubleshooter and team-builder, she has been nationally recognized for invention and leadership and now applies privacy-preserving cryptography to large-scale genetics and health datasets.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Peking UniversityMaster's degree, Informatics, Master's degree, Informatics at Northeastern University
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4kreached
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Github Skills (50)
hail10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
elasticsearch9
genome8
viewer8
component-based8
cancer-genomics8
genomics-visualization8
meteor-package7
webpack6
webpack-dev-server6
embeddable5
ddp5
visualization4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ShifaSZ/test
Nov 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
ShifaSZ/dclib
May 2018 - Jan 2020
Web-based Dreamcorps Library Management System
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
management-systemlibrary-management-systemweb-basedlaravellibrary-management
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