Guangchuang Yu
Professor at Southern Medical University
Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolGuangchuang Yu is a Professor of Bioinformatics at Southern Medical University with 17 years of experience bridging computational biology and software engineering. Trained in systems biology (PhD, The University of Hong Kong), he builds and maintains widely used R/Bioconductor tools for phylogenetics and pathway analysis—most notably core contributions to ggtree and clusterProfiler that power visualization and enrichment workflows. His work spans back-end algorithm design, Shiny dashboard full‑stack development (including practical fixes for Chinese font rendering and animation in the nCov2019 app), and user-facing package enhancements like hexSticker customization. Known for shipping robust, well-documented R packages, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to make complex omics analyses accessible and reproducible.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Anhui Medical UniversitySouth China Agricultural UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, teochew, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (17)
visualization10
r10
shiny10
sticker10
bioinformatics10
ggplot10
visualizations10
animation9
phylogeny6
igraph6
ggtree6
font-awesome6
bioconductor6
python6
tree6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
YuLab-SMU/ggtree
Dec 2014 - Nov 2022
:christmas_tree:Visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 1225 commits, 123 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Guangchuang's commits primarily focused on implementing core functionalities for visualizing and annotating phylogenetic trees within the ggtree package. They implemented various geometric features, including `geom_tree`, `geom_tiplab`, `geom_tippoint`, `geom_aline`, and `theme_blank`. These changes involved modifications to the R/ggtree.R and R/utilities.R files.
phylogenetic-treesvisualizationrannotationsggplot2
GuangchuangYu/hexSticker
Mar 2017 - Nov 2022
:sparkles: Hexagon sticker in R
Role in this project:Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:176 commits, 122 PRs, 255 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Guangchuang primarily contributed to the development of the `hexsticker` R package, focusing on enhancing its functionality and user experience. They introduced new parameters to the core `sticker` function, such as `l_alpha`, `asp`, and `dpi`, enabling more customization options for sticker generation. The user also fixed bugs, updated documentation, and addressed user requests related to the package's features, which demonstrates an understanding of the package's internal mechanics. Furthermore, the user implemented a method to allow the `sticker` object to be displayed.
rstickershexagon-stickerrstatsggplot2
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