Yichen Wang
Bioinformatician - Computational Biologist Intermediate
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYichen Wang is a bioinformatician with 8 years of experience specializing in single-cell and sequence analysis, currently developing tools for single-cell multi-omic data at the University of Michigan. He holds an MS in Bioinformatics from Boston University and a BS in Life Science from ShanghaiTech, and previously supported genomic projects at Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. Yichen combines hands-on analysis (scRNA-seq and genome assembly) with software tool development, bridging research needs and reproducible pipelines. Based in Boston, he brings a research-oriented engineering mindset and a track record of translating complex sequence problems into usable computational tools.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Life Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Life Science at ShanghaiTech UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Bioinformatics, GPA 3.71, Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics, GPA 3.71 at Boston University
Github Skills (47)
r-package10
r10
spatially-resolved-transcriptomics10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
seurat9
spatial-transcriptomics9
single-cell-analysis9
directories6
visualization6
shiny5
seq5
nmf5
inference4
rna-seq4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
welch-lab/CytoSimplex
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Simplex plot showing similarity between single-cells and clusters
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year 11 months
mvfki/liger
Mar 2023 - Nov 2025
R package for integrating and analyzing multiple single-cell datasets
Contributions:1 PR, 193 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
rr-package
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