Xiaofei Zhu
Vice Dean Of College Of Computer Science And Engineering at Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Computer Vision Intelligent Technology
Chongqing, China
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Top SchoolXiaofei Zhu is a professor and academic leader with a PhD in Information Retrieval and over a decade of experience bridging web search, data mining, and machine learning research with institutional strategy as Vice Dean and Head of Computer Science at Chongqing University of Technology. He spent four postdoctoral years at L3S in Germany, has a CIKM Best Paper Award, and regularly serves on program committees and editorial boards for top conferences like SIGIR and AAAI. Xiaofei combines rigorous scholarship—papers in SIGIR, WWW, CIKM, TKDE—with hands-on bioinformatics coding, contributing backend improvements to the widely used jcvi Python library for genome assembly and synteny analysis. Based in Chongqing, he also directs an engineering research center for computer vision, reflecting a rare blend of administrative leadership, cross-disciplinary research, and practical open-source impact.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Retrieval, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Retrieval at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (4)
bioinformatics10
python10
assembly8
genomics8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tanghaibao/jcvi
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Python library to facilitate genome assembly, annotation, and comparative genomics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Xiaofei primarily contributed to the `jcvi` Python library, focusing on enhancing bioinformatics functionalities. They implemented features related to LAST alignment, including adding the `--dbtype` option and incorporating the option to not strip contig names. The user also addressed error handling within the synteny analysis module. These contributions improved the library's capabilities for genome assembly, annotation, and comparative genomics workflows.
comparative-genomicsgenome-assemblypythongenomicsgenome-sequencing
FrasergenBioinformatics/SGE-scripts
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:48 commits, 19 PRs, 11 pushes in 8 months
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