Shimin Shuai
Associate Professor
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolShimin Shuai is an associate professor and computational biologist with nine years of experience at the intersection of cancer genomics, bioinformatics, data science and machine learning. He leads the COmics Lab at SUSTech, translating large-scale sequencing data into insights about cancer drivers and tumor ecosystems. His postdoctoral work at EMBL-EBI and EMBL involved COVID-19 host genetics and cancer ecosystem profiling, building on a PhD at the University of Toronto where he developed DriverPower, a top-performing Python tool that helped identify hundreds of cancer drivers in the PCAWG project. Comfortable bridging rigorous computational methods and biological discovery, he has a track record of uncovering non-coding driver mutations and delivering reproducible open-source software. Based in Shenzhen, he combines international collaborative experience with hands-on tool development to tackle complex genomic problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Genetics at University of TorontoBachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Zhejiang University
Swedish, English, kinesiska
Github Skills (35)
bioinformatics10
prediction10
genomics10
rna-seq8
regression-models8
forecasting8
espn8
statsmodels8
statistics8
hypothesis-testing8
jack7
econometrics7
yang7
python7
modeling7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
smshuai/CNest-nf
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Nextflow pipeline for CNest
Contributions:28 commits, 70 pushes in 5 months
nextflow-pipelinepipelinepipeline-frameworknextflowworkflow
smshuai/DriverPower
Oct 2016 - May 2020
DriverPower
Contributions:5 releases, 225 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 8 months
bioinformaticsgenomics
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