Kai Wang
Scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKai Wang is a scientist and genomic bioinformatics researcher with 12 years of experience translating human genome variation into actionable insights for clinical and research settings. Based in Philadelphia, he holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Bioinformatics and combines academic leadership roles at the University of Pennsylvania with a scientist appointment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His career spans faculty positions at Columbia and USC and postdoctoral training at CHOP and Penn, reflecting deep expertise in tumor biology, immunology, and computational genomics. Known for deploying bioinformatics approaches to interpret variation, he bridges method development and real-world clinical deployment—a trait that helps move discoveries from code and models into patient-focused applications.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Microbiology and Bioinformatics, Ph.D., Microbiology and Bioinformatics at University of WashingtonB.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Peking UniversityM.S., Tumor Biology and Immunology, M.S., Tumor Biology and Immunology at Mayo Graduate School
Github Skills (39)
genes10
fastq-files10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
sequence10
variants9
next-generation-sequencing9
sequencing9
gwas9
gene-expression9
webserver9
driver9
genome-analysis8
pipeline8
ontology8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
WGLab/EHR-Phenolyzer
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
A pipeline that takes clinical notes from EHRs and generate phenotype terms, then generate ranked gene list
Contributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 years 4 months
takesnotespipelineclinicalranked
WGLab/UROBORUS
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
UROBORUS: circular RNA identification from RNA-Seq data
Contributions:4 releases, 37 commits, 3 PRs in 11 months
rna-seq
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