Zhicheng Ji
Assistant Professor at Duke University Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolZhicheng Ji is an Assistant Professor at Duke University's Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics with 12 years of experience at the intersection of computer science and biostatistics. He holds a PhD in Biostatistics and an MEng in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins, and began his academic journey with a strong statistics foundation from Fudan University. His work blends methodological rigor and computational tools to address complex biomedical data problems, grounded in both theoretical training and practical engineering. Based in Baltimore, he runs an academic lab and maintains an online presence (zji90.github.io) that highlights research and reproducible code—signaling a commitment to open science even when large-scale GitHub activity is modest. Colleagues describe him as a scholar-practitioner who turns statistical insights into usable software and reproducible analyses for translational research.
12 years of coding experience
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor, Statistics, 3.64, Bachelor, Statistics, 3.64 at Fudan University
English, German, Chinese
Github Skills (115)
gbm10
xgboost10
dataflow10
seq10
gene-expression10
genomics10
clustering10
portable10
dimensionality-reduction10
variational-autoencoder10
shiny10
htmlwidgets10
gradient10
single-cell-analysis10
rna-seq10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zji90/GEOsearch
Jul 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 22 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 9 months
zji90/zji90.github.io
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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