Yichao Sun
Bioinformatics Engineer, Data Curator
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYichao Sun is a bioinformatics engineer and data curator with 11 years of experience at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, blending software engineering and genomics to build and maintain large-scale clinical and genomic datasets. He designs and implements backend pipelines, databases and web interfaces—contributing full-stack and front-end improvements to high-profile open-source projects like cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics, including interactive genomic overviews and Plotly/React integrations. Comfortable in command-line environments and multiple programming languages, he pairs rigorous data curation with practical software solutions for reproducible research. Yichao’s background spans computer science and molecular biology (Columbia, Wuhan, NYU), which gives him a rare ability to translate biological questions into robust computational workflows. Colleagues describe him as responsible, adaptable, detail-oriented and effective at cross-disciplinary collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Wuhan UniversityCell and Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell and Molecular Biology, Genetics at New York UniversityMaster, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (16)
javascript10
react10
mobx9
cancer-genomics9
plotly9
api8
apim8
integrations8
front-end-development8
apic8
d3js7
css6
jspx6
jsp6
visualizations5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cBioPortal/cbioportal
Jun 2015 - May 2022
cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 110 commits, 123 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Yichao primarily focused on merging branches and integrating code changes. They worked on Plotly.js integration, adding and modifying code in JavaScript files related to cross-cancer plots, over-representation analysis, and co-expression analysis. Additionally, the user made changes to JSP files and CSS, indicating involvement in both front-end and potentially some back-end aspects of the cBioPortal application.
precision-medicinesciencecbioportalgenomicscancer
cBioPortal/cbioportal-frontend
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
React Frontend of cBioPortal :tada:
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 1 comment in 28 days
Contributions summary:Yichao primarily worked on the front-end of the cBioPortal project, focusing on the "Genomic Overview" page. Their contributions included rendering genomic overview and datasets pages, integrating the qtip2 library, and implementing a bar chart for mutation events. They also refactored code and updated dependencies, such as switching from the legacy API to the new one. This user demonstrated a strong understanding of React and related libraries, and integration of API data to render interactive visualizations.
reactcbioportalreact-frontendmobxfrontend
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