Zhaorong Ma
Programmer at SoftGenetics
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolZhaorong Ma is a programmer in State College, PA with over a decade of experience applying computational and statistical methods to biological data, including microarray, next-generation sequencing, gene annotation, and data visualization. With a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Genomics from Penn State, he has led wet-lab-aware bioinformatics projects—developing a targeted enrichment method and integrating sRNAseq, degradome, and whole-genome alignment data to discover and annotate novel small RNA loci across multiple species. At SoftGenetics since 2014 he translates complex genomics workflows into reliable software, combining hands-on molecular biology experience with production-grade computational analysis. He also has a strong teaching background, having guided life-sciences students in Python and practical data analysis, and an early track record of cancer- and stress-related transcriptome studies from Fudan University. Notably, his work bridges experimental design and algorithmic analysis, enabling discovery of regulatory elements that are difficult to detect with standard pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Yaohua High SchoolB.S., Biological Science, GPA 3.49, B.S., Biological Science, GPA 3.49 at Fudan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics and Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics and Genomics at Pennsylvania State UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
11,912reputation
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Github Skills (59)
python10
django10
psycopg10
sequence-alignment10
orm10
phylogenetics10
bioinformatics10
pip10
genomics10
django-framework9
amqp9
matplotlib9
redis9
openpyxl9
pytest9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
azalea/azalea.github.io
Jun 2013 - Apr 2022
Contributions:222 commits, 3 PRs, 143 pushes in 8 years 11 months
azalea/django_celery_windows_service
Sep 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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