Shishi Luo
Director, Research And Bioinformatics
United States
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Top SchoolShishi Luo is a math-trained computational biologist and director of research and bioinformatics with 11 years of experience building regulated bioinformatics software and leading infectious-disease and genomics teams at Helix. She pairs hands-on technical expertise—spanning large-scale whole-genome analyses and custom tools for antibody lineage inference—with leadership as a director and former principal investigator. Her PhD in mathematics underpins a rigorous, quantitative approach to complex genomic variation and algorithmic problems, and she has translated that work into productionized pipelines in a regulated environment. She has academic roots as a postdoc and lecturer at UC Berkeley, where she combined research on complex genomic regions with teaching data-analysis courses. Comfortable switching between code, analysis, and strategic direction, she brings a rare mix of theoretical depth and product-focused execution. An uncommonly high teaching rating and time spent at the Simons Institute hint at strong communication and a broad computational perspective beyond routine bioinformatics.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at Duke UniversityBSc/BCommerce, Mathematics/Finance, BSc/BCommerce, Mathematics/Finance at The University of QueenslandUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
genomics9
science7
python6
surveillance5
data-science5
helix5
machine-learning1
pgx1
bioinformatics1
pipeline1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
shishiluo/Genomics-DataScience
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Class materials for LS 88-3 Genomics and Data Science
Contributions:105 commits, 103 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
pythonsciencegenomicsdata-science
shishiluo/project
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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