Khi Chua
APAC Bioinformatics Consulting Manager - Sequencing
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolKhi Chua is an experienced computational biologist and bioinformatics leader with a PhD in Future Healthcare and over a decade working at the intersection of genomics, sequencing technology, and quantitative physics. Currently APAC Bioinformatics Consulting Manager for sequencing, he has driven adoption of third-generation HiFi sequencing across research and clinical collaborations while building production-grade analysis workflows and mentoring regional talent. His background includes leading large-scale cancer genomics studies on cohorts of 500+ Asian lung cancer patients, developing distributed NGS pipelines on HPC and cloud, and transitioning research tools into R&D for clinical genome applications. Known for bridging deep quantitative methods (from molecular dynamics to metadynamics) with practical field support and open-source workflow development, he brings both hands-on technical delivery and strategic customer-facing leadership across APAC.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Future Healthcare, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Future Healthcare at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese, Malay
Github Skills (36)
nextflow9
bioconductor9
bioinformatics9
microbiome9
metagenomics9
genomics9
assembler8
genomes8
taxonomy8
binning7
sequencing7
genome7
rna-seq6
phasing6
illumina5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
PacificBiosciences/HiFi-16S-workflow
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Nextflow pipeline to analyze PacBio HiFi full-length 16S data
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 197 commits in 8 months
nextflow
PacificBiosciences/HiFi-somatic-WDL
Mar 2024 - Dec 2025
Tumor-normal variant calling workflow using HiFi reads
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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