Hao Hou
Senior Research Analyst at University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHao Hou is a Senior Research Analyst based in Salt Lake City with 14 years of software engineering and research experience spanning academia and industry. He holds a 4.0 MS in Computer Science from the University of Utah and has built backend systems and ranking engines at Baidu and Microsoft before returning to university research. Hao contributes to high-impact bioinformatics tooling—working on HTSLIB integration for bedtools2 to enhance BAM/CRAM support—highlighting a knack for low-level file-format and performance-focused engineering. His background blends static analysis, security tooling, and large-scale advertising and search infrastructure, enabling him to translate research ideas into production-ready code. Colleagues know him for precise, dependable implementations and an eye for bridging legacy formats with modern libraries.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
ram10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
bam10
bioinformatics9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
arq5x/bedtools2
Dec 2017 - Feb 2022
bedtools - the swiss army knife for genome arithmetic
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 108 commits, 34 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Hao primarily contributed to the HTSLIBXX integration within the bedtools2 repository, as evidenced by the code changes focused on the BamAlignment and SamHeader classes. Their work involved adding new property mappings, modifying the BamReader and BamWriter classes to support the integration of HTSLIB, and incorporating CRAM support. These changes involved adding new property mappings, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the core functionality of the library related to BAM and CRAM file processing.
bedtools
38/plumber_examples
May 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:159 commits, 2 PRs, 139 pushes in 1 year 10 months
plumber
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