Venus Lau
Application Scientist
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolVenus Lau is an application scientist and computational microbiologist with eight years of experience bridging wet-lab molecular biology and cloud/HPC bioinformatics to deliver validated, scalable scientific data solutions. With a PhD-focused background in microbial genomics from Simon Fraser University and roles spanning R&D, custom software delivery, and business development, she excels at turning complex infectious disease datasets into actionable insights for startups and enterprise users. She has hands-on experience in lab workflows, infectious disease genomics, and software validation, enabling smooth translation between scientists and engineering teams. At Magna Labs she led custom solutions and now serves as a community ambassador while continuing application-focused work at Dotmatics, reflecting both technical depth and stakeholder-facing communication skills. Notably, she combines practical lab bench experience with production-grade cloud analysis pipelines, an uncommon double competency that accelerates deployment of reproducible bioinformatics.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Simon Fraser University
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (1)
simulation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vlauu/VancouverRatProject_Microbiome
May 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
yxblee/EpiCoronaHack_Cluster
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:33 pushes in 11 days
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