Zhenguo Zhang
Staff Bioinformatics Scientist
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolZhenguo Zhang is a Staff Bioinformatics Scientist with 11 years of industry experience and 18 years of R&D expertise bridging genomics, computational biology, and healthcare product development. He has led DNA/RNA cancer marker discovery and built full-stack, scalable analysis platforms and Nextflow pipelines on AWS that reduced NGS analysis time by over 70%. Comfortable across R, Python, Bash, Docker, and cloud tooling, he combines algorithm development, statistical modeling, and practical UI work (Streamlit/Shiny) to make complex multi-omic analyses accessible to teams. His published academic work in evolutionary genomics and novel tools like a Codon Usage Analyzer demonstrate a habit of turning deep biological insight into reproducible software. Based in Irvine, CA, he mentors junior scientists and uniquely blends wet-lab collaboration experience with production-grade bioinformatics engineering to accelerate diagnostic innovation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBachelor of Science (BS), Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biotechnology at Nanjing University
Chinese, English, German
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Github Skills (28)
reproducible-research10
slurm10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
bioinformatics10
dsl9
dataflow9
nextflow9
pipeline-framework9
groovy9
docker9
pipeline9
aws9
wdl9
hpc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fortune9/NGS
Nov 2016 - Dec 2023
Tools and tutorials for Next-generation Sequencing Data Analaysis
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 2 months
next-generationsequencing-datanext-generation-sequencinggenomicssequencing
fortune9/config
Jan 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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