Zheng Xu
Doctoral Student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolZheng Xu is a genomics-focused doctoral student at Washington University School of Medicine with eight years of research experience spanning biostatistics, molecular dynamics, and pangenome-aware functional genomics. He develops reproducible bioinformatics pipelines—such as a Dockerized ATAC-seq QC environment leveraging graph-based references—and investigates allele-specific functions within pangenome frameworks. A Biostatistics MS alum, he combines quantitative rigor with wet-lab insight from prior molecular modeling work at Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Zheng has industry exposure through a quality assurance internship at Merck and sustains a parallel creative practice as a registered photographer for Visual China Group. Based in Missouri, he brings a blend of computational genomics, statistical training, and attention to reproducible tooling that accelerates complex genomic analyses. Notably, his profile reflects a rare pairing of scientific engineering and visual storytelling that informs how he presents and documents research.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Biopharmaceuticals, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Biopharmaceuticals at Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese MedicineDoctor of Philosophy, Molecular Genetics & Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy, Molecular Genetics & Genomics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Github Skills (13)
scenarios9
spring-boot9
apollo8
spring-cloud8
configuration-management7
microservices7
failover7
aws6
high-availability5
kubernetes5
load-balancer4
load-balancing4
service-discovery4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
larryxuzhen/Team-J
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
Guigulive/Team-J
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 6 PRs, 1 comment in 19 days
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