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 (43)
bioinformatics-analysis9
sequence-analysis9
starcraft9
cjs8
oop8
bioinformatics7
dotplot7
genomics7
data-processing6
sequence-alignment6
comparative-genomics5
genome-assembly5
assembler5
structural-variation5
assembly5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
XuewenWangUGA/USAT
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Universal STR Allele Toolkit (USAT)
Contributions:176 commits, 2 PRs, 171 pushes in 9 months
strstarcraftbioinformatics-analysistoolkitcjs
XuewenWangUGA/SeqReadsProcessing
Apr 2021 - Nov 2025
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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