Shuyu Zheng
Doctoral Researcher at University of Helsinki
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolShuyu Zheng is a doctoral researcher and bioinformatician with 8 years’ experience translating clinical oncology insights into computational tools for drug discovery and precision medicine. Based in Gothenburg and completing a PhD at the University of Helsinki, she has led development of widely used open-source platforms such as the DrugComb portal and SynergyFinder Plus, and builds R/Python pipelines for high-throughput screens, spatial transcriptomics, and single-cell lineage tracing. Her background in clinical medicine and oncology informs a disease-oriented approach that tightly couples algorithm development with biological and clinical relevance. Notably, her methods have contributed to Nature Communications and an in-press Modern Pathology article, reflecting both software impact and translational research output. She thrives in multidisciplinary teams, combining software engineering, data visualization, and user support to make biomedical research more predictive and patient-centered.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Oncology, Master's degree, Oncology at Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (23)
systems-biology8
transcriptomics8
bioinformatics8
single-cell-analysis7
tsne7
computational-biology6
genomics6
cran6
docking6
rna-seq5
machine-learning5
r5
python5
visualization5
drug-discovery5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shuyuzheng/Chloroplot
Dec 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:60 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
shuyuzheng/synergyfinder
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:284 commits, 1 PR, 92 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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