Haogao Gu
Associate Research Scientist
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHaogao Gu is a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, with 11 years of experience bridging bioinformatics and infectious disease research. He completed a PhD in Bioinformatics (Infectious Diseases) at HKU after a foundation in preventive medicine from Sun Yat-sen University, and progressed from clinical and public-health internships to a postdoctoral fellowship and faculty appointment. His work combines computational genomics and epidemiology to inform disease control in Hong Kong and the region, drawing on hands-on experience at multiple CDCs and hospitals in Guangdong. Known for translating complex genomic data into actionable public-health insights, he maintains an academic web presence and collaborative research profile that supports regional disease surveillance.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Preventive Medicine, Bachelor's Degree, Preventive Medicine at Sun Yat-sen UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (58)
r-package10
chatgpt9
large-language-models9
markov9
arxiv9
cran9
paper8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
r8
statistical-inference7
bioconductor7
rmarkdown6
hackintosh6
llama6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Koohoko/SynMut
Feb 2019 - May 2025
SynMut: An R Package for Designing Synonymously Mutated Sequences with Different Genomic Signatures
Contributions:2 PRs, 66 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 3 months
r-package
HKU-SPH-COVID-19-Genomics-Consortium/HK-SARS-CoV-2-genomic-epidemiology
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 8 pushes in 7 months
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