Simon Chu
Principal Investigator
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Chu is a Principal Investigator and computational biologist with 12 years of experience designing algorithms and methods for bioinformatics, currently leading research at The Wistar Institute after data-science and fellowship roles at ROME Therapeutics and Harvard Medical School. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut (3.9/4.0) and specializes in algorithmic method development with a particular obsession for genomic repeats, translating deep computational theory into practical genomics tools. Comfortable bridging academic research and industry-driven drug discovery, he has a track record of moving complex sequence-analysis problems toward usable pipelines and insights. Based in Philadelphia, he combines rigorous CS training with hands-on data-science leadership to tackle repeating elements in genomes—an often-overlooked source of biological variation with outsized impact on interpretation.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0 at University of ConnecticutComputer Science, Computer Science at Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Github Skills (87)
blast10
package-management10
structural-variation10
genome-assembly10
genomics10
genetic10
rna-seq10
bioconda10
insertion10
genome10
conda10
infectious-diseases10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
illumina10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
simoncchu/BarcodeMate
Jan 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
simoncchu/REPdenovo
Mar 2015 - May 2021
A tool to construct repeats directly from raw reads
Contributions:1 release, 41 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 3 months
rustrepeats
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