Joe Zhu
Senior Statistical Programmer Analyst
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Zhu is a Senior Statistical Programmer Analyst with 13 years of experience building data and tooling for AI-driven drug discovery and digital health projects. Trained to PhD level in statistics, he has blended deep academic work on coalescent theory and malaria genomics with industry roles at Sensyne Health and Roche, where he led analytics for clinical and digital-health programs. He is a pragmatic programmer and open-source builder who creates synthetic EHR datasets and developer tooling to accelerate ML research and reproducible science. Joe’s background spans genome-scale research at Oxford and DNA data-storage consulting at BGI, a mix that gives him rare expertise at the intersection of statistical genetics, clinical data engineering, and production analytics. Based in Oxford, he is known for hands-on technical leadership—git master and top committer on collaborative codebases—plus a curiosity for turning theoretical methods into usable software.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityFoundation Studies, Foundation Studies at University of Canterbury
English, Chinese
Github Skills (99)
variants10
exploratory10
mcmc10
genomics10
monte-carlo10
simulate10
markov-chain10
listings10
r10
shiny10
genetic10
gt10
lambda10
nest10
genome10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
luntergroup/smcsmc
Apr 2014 - Apr 2017
Demographic inference from whole genomes
Contributions:449 commits in 3 years
inference
DEploid-dev/DEploid-r
Sep 2016 - Apr 2020
An R interface for dEploid. dEploid is designed for deconvoluting mixed genomes with unknown proportions. Traditional ‘phasing’ programs are limited to diploid organisms. Our method modifies Li and Stephen’s algorithm with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approaches, and builds a generic framework that allows haloptype searches in a multiple infection setting.
Contributions:11 releases, 1 review, 193 commits in 3 years 7 months
markov-chainmcmcmonte-carlocrandeconvoluting-mixed-genomes
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