Yishen Miao
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolYishen Miao is a postdoctoral scholar and bioinformatician with 14 years of research experience bridging experimental biology and computational analysis. Trained at Columbia and UC Santa Barbara (PhD in Bioinformatics), he has led graduate research and teaching across molecular biology and recombinant DNA methods while developing reproducible computational workflows. Comfortable both at the bench and behind the terminal, he contributes to open-source maintenance tasks—recently automating driver cask updates for Homebrew—showing attention to reproducibility and packaging details often overlooked in academic software. Based in Los Angeles, Yishen combines rigorous wet-lab expertise with practical software tooling to accelerate biological discovery.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at UC Santa BarbaraMaster of Arts - MA Bioinformatics, Master of Arts - MA Bioinformatics at Columbia University
English, Chinese, Latin
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Github Skills (5)
homebrew10
software-packaging10
package-management10
ruby9
optimization6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask-drivers
Nov 2019 - Nov 2021
💀 Casks of Drivers (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer
Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Yishen primarily focused on maintaining and updating driver packages within the `homebrew-cask-drivers` repository. Their commits involved removing, adding, and updating drivers for various Focusrite products, specifically focusing on driver versions and their corresponding package files. They also updated download links and homepage URLs, ensuring the cask definitions reflected the current software versions and locations.
casksdriverscaskhomebrew
mys721tx/nullfs
Jun 2020 - Feb 2023
a /dev/null filesystem written in Rust
Contributions:11 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
rustfilesystemdev
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