William Wang
Chief Executive Officer at Self-employed
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Wang is a PhD-trained genomics and bioinformatics leader with over a decade of hands-on experience translating high-throughput sequencing and statistical models into practical solutions for public health, forensics, and agricultural genomics. He has led genome sequencing and analysis programs across academia, government (USDA), and industry—building reproducible pipelines, novel bioinformatics tools, and identifying genetic markers that inform disease and forensic investigations. As a former team lead at China Tobacco Gene Center and senior scientist at multiple US universities, he combines technical depth in NGS, Linux/HPC, Perl/R/Python with proven mentorship and project leadership. He has authored 70+ peer-reviewed papers and released research software widely used by collaborators, reflecting a rare mix of publication impact and production-ready tool development. Based in Georgia and now running his own company, he brings an interdisciplinary perspective spanning plant biology to human forensics and a track record of turning complex genomic data into actionable insights.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Botany/Plant Biology, Master of Science (MS), Botany/Plant Biology at Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Genetics at King's College London
English, Chinese
Github Skills (57)
sequence-analysis9
starcraft9
cjs8
bioinformatics-analysis8
oop7
blast7
bioinformatics7
structural-variation7
genomes7
dotplot7
genomics7
comparative-genomics6
genome6
sequence-alignment6
assembly6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
XuewenWangUGA/SeqReadsProcessing
Apr 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
XuewenWangUGA/GMATA
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:99 commits, 2 PRs, 108 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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