Zuguang Gu
Professor at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolZuguang Gu is a precision-medicine professor and senior bioinformagician with 13+ years’ experience translating complex omics data into clinical and research impact. Based in Shenzhen and formerly a core bioinformatician at DKFZ/HIPO, he has led over 20 disease-focused projects, developed bespoke analysis workflows for precision oncology, and contributed tools used in clinical practice. An influential R package author with 18 published packages and over 5 million downloads, he built widely adopted visualization standards such as ComplexHeatmap and circlize, and continues to refine low-level plotting and UI internals in his open-source work. He has authored 45 papers (20 as first/corresponding author), with first-author publications in top journals and over 10,000 citations, placing him among the top 2% of cited scientists in 2022. Passionate about teaching and community-building, he is a Bioconductor-certified Carpentries instructor who shares software development and data-analysis insights via blogs and social platforms.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biology and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biology and Molecular Biology at Nanjing University
English, Chinese, eryaonese
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Github Skills (15)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
graphics-programming10
r9
plot9
heatmap6
complexheatmap6
visualization6
chord-diagram6
ggplot6
geometry6
colors6
bslib6
circos6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jokergoo/circlize
Apr 2013 - Dec 2022
Circular visualization in R
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:893 commits, 8 PRs, 392 pushes in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Zuguang primarily contributed to the user interface and internal functions of the R package. They made changes to the plot.R file and the utils.R files, suggesting enhancements to both visual representations (bars, links, axes) and the underlying data processing. The addition of a "draw.sector" function and related refinements also suggest work on low-level graphics, possibly improving plotting capabilities.
circulardata-visualizationvisualization
jokergoo/ComplexHeatmap-reference
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
Documentation of ComplexHeatmap package
Contributions:36 commits, 3 PRs, 153 pushes in 3 years 2 months
complexheatmap
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