Weizhong Li
Director Of Bioinformatics
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeizhong Li is a Director of Bioinformatics with 11+ years leading R&D at the intersection of genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics and computational chemistry, currently driving bioinformatics and data science at Thermo Fisher Scientific. He has a strong track record of academic and industry leadership—from founding a UC San Diego research group and professorship at J. Craig Venter Institute to applied roles at Human Longevity and Quorex—coupled with NIH, NSF and USDA-funded algorithm development. His work spans scalable NGS clustering algorithms, human microbiome and RNA-seq analyses, and end-to-end computational workflow and database engineering for large sequencing cohorts. Notably, he has developed methods used to process some of the largest human microbiome WGS datasets and built cross-disciplinary tools that bridge protein structure prediction, drug discovery and metagenomic ecology. Trained as a chemist (Ph.D., Nankai University), he blends deep computational method development with practical productionization in cloud and enterprise settings.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemistry at Nankai University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
clustering-algorithm10
clustering9
python8
predict4
identifier3
bioinformatics2
genomics2
viewer1
metagenomics1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
weizhongli/cdhit-web-server
May 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 20 pushes in 5 years 4 months
weizhongli/ngomicswf
Oct 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:128 commits, 284 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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