Zemin Ning
Senior Scientific Manager at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolZemin Ning is a Senior Scientific Manager leading the High Performance Algorithms group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, where he has driven development of widely used genome informatics tools for sequence alignment and assembly since joining in 1999. Trained in engineering and physics with a PhD in granular mechanics, he blends rigorous quantitative thinking with practical software engineering to tackle large-scale genomics problems. His work has produced around 80 publications and over 30,000 citations, reflecting both scientific impact and community adoption. Based in Cambridge, he pairs long-term academic experience—from postdoctoral work at Cambridge and Surrey—with hands-on leadership in bioinformatics toolchains that underpin modern sequencing projects. An often-overlooked strength is his background in granular mechanics, which informs a systems-oriented approach to algorithmic performance and scalability.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Granular mechanics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Granular mechanics at Aston University
Github Skills (7)
genome10
genome-assembly9
assembly9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
scaffolding9
pipeline7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wtsi-hpag/caus
Mar 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:71 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
wtsi-hpag/scaffHiC
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:80 commits, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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