Zhipan Li
Principal Engineer at Sentieon Inc.
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhipan Li is a Principal Engineer in Mountain View with 8 years in software and a Ph.D. in Physics, blending deep scientific rigor with practical product engineering across genomics, digital advertising, and semiconductors. He has driven measurable business impact—tripling daily sales at Alibaba's flash-sale service and doubling CTR for mobile push—while building large-scale recommendation, bidding, and forecasting systems. At Sentieon he now applies that algorithmic and systems expertise to core genomics products, pairing front- and back-end development with large-scale data mining. With 30+ publications, multiple patents, and invited talks, he bridges research and production, often turning advanced math/physics insights into deployable algorithms. Colleagues describe him as highly collaborative and customer-focused, able to engage global accounts and lead cross-functional development from prototype to production.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBS Physics, BS Physics at Peking UniversityM. S Physics, M. S Physics at Yale University
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
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Github Skills (1)
apache-pig6
Github contributions (1)
Sentieon/Sentieon-cwl
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes in 4 months
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