Shing Zhan
NDPH Intermediate Fellow
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolShing Zhan is a bioinformatics scientist and independent NDPH Fellow at the University of Oxford with 11+ years of experience translating genomic data into clinical and diagnostic impact. He combines a strong academic record (PhD in Bioinformatics, 29 publications and a patent application) with industry R&D leadership, having guided assay development at a molecular diagnostics startup and served as a translational genomics fellow. Skilled in large-scale sequence data wrangling, comparative genomics, metagenomics and integration of heterogeneous clinical datasets, he repeatedly delivers end-to-end projects across multidisciplinary, international teams. Notably, he has experience moving between academia and product-focused roles—developing four RUO assay products while on leave from his doctoral studies to build a startup—bringing both scientific rigor and practical product delivery to translational genomics.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Bioinformatics, Ph.D., Bioinformatics at The University of British Columbia
Chinese, English
Github Skills (54)
phylogenetics10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
r-package9
args9
python9
inference9
genetic9
graph9
infer9
science9
discrete-optimization8
sequence8
azerothcore8
particle-swarm-optimization8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
szhan/sc2ts-paper
Mar 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:330 pushes, 136 branches in 3 years 4 months
szhan/tsimpute
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Genome-wide genotype imputation using tree sequences.
Contributions:203 PRs, 251 pushes, 207 branches in 1 year 9 months
bioinformaticsgenomicstree-sequences
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