Tongji Xing
Scientific Software Developer at RCSB Protein Data Bank
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTongji Xing is a Scientific Software Developer and computational biologist with nine years of experience building bioinformatics applications, data pipelines, and visualizations, currently contributing to the RCSB Protein Data Bank. He earned a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Rutgers and moved from bench science to software by self-teaching C, R, Python, SQL and HPC workflows (SLURM) during his graduate research. Tongji combines deep domain knowledge in cell biology and simulation with practical engineering skills to turn complex biological questions into reproducible computational tools and databases. He has strong communication and teaching experience from graduate research and TA roles, enabling effective collaboration across interdisciplinary teams. Notably, his background shows an unusual blend of rigorous experimental training and hands-on software development, making him adept at bridging wet-lab needs and scalable computational solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at Rutgers University-New BrunswickMaster’s Degree, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, 3.96, Master’s Degree, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, 3.96 at Appalachian State UniversityBiology, 4.0, Biology, 4.0 at Pfeiffer UniversityBS, Biology, 3.35, BS, Biology, 3.35 at Shanxi University
Github Skills (12)
blast10
metagenomics9
taxonomy9
bioinformatics9
clustering8
chemistry7
cheminformatics6
materials-informatics5
profiling5
toolbox5
visualization4
data-profiling3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xtj87515/RiboViz
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
visualizationprofilingribosome-profiling-dataribosome-profilingribosome
xtj87515/SMOTNT_batch
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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