Qiong Wang
Lead Scientist at IFF
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQiong Wang is a Lead Scientist with over 20 years at the intersection of bioinformatics, computer science, and medical research, specializing in NGS microbiome analysis across human, animal, soil, and crop systems. She has driven more than 20 microbiome projects in industry, developed high-throughput pipelines for amplicon, genomic, metagenomic and RNA-seq analyses, and translated results into four patents for novel probiotics. A dual-trained researcher (Computer Science and Medical Sciences) and prolific author with 30+ publications and >35,000 citations, she combines deep algorithmic expertise—having led development of widely used metagenomics tools—with product-focused discovery in probiotics and prebiotics. Based in Wilmington, Delaware, she brings rare breadth from clinical medicine to scalable computational solutions, and a track record of turning complex (meta)genomic data into actionable insights for commercial R&D.
13 years of coding experience
Master degree, Pediatrics, Master degree, Pediatrics at Tongji Medical UniversityMD, Clinical Medicine, MD, Clinical Medicine at TongJi Medical College of HUSTMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (15)
bioinformatics10
microbiome10
sequence-alignment10
genes10
microbiology10
classifier10
file-manipulation10
sequence9
rdp9
eco9
mer8
genomics8
assembler8
java7
matching6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rdpstaff/fungene_pipeline
Aug 2013 - Apr 2015
Scripts and resources for analyzing sequence data for select eco-functional genes
Contributions:16 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
analyzingsequenceecogenomicsbioinformatics
rdpstaff/TaxonomyTree
Aug 2013 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 1 push in 6 years 7 months
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