Zhenfeng Liu
Bioinformatics Scientist & Bioinformatics Group Leader
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhenfeng Liu is a bioinformatics scientist and group leader with over a decade of experience translating omics data into production-ready pipelines and customer-facing tools. At Zymo Research he has built and scaled pipelines for RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, miRNA, 16S and shotgun metagenomics and led development of a no-code platform that lets customers run those analyses without scripting. His background spans academia and industry—from assembling dozens of bacterial genomes and pioneering metatranscriptome analyses at Penn State to running large-scale (>10 TB) RNA-seq projects and server infrastructure at USC. He combines hands-on pipeline engineering and database-building with statistical analysis and applied machine learning, and has co-led international team expansions to support R&D and operations. Author of 30+ publications, he maintains an active GitHub with reproducible projects and real-world ML work that complement his lab-to-production focus. Based in Irvine, CA, he often bridges customer needs and technical delivery, making complex bioinformatics accessible to non-specialists.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Biological Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biological Sciences at Peking UniversityData Science Career Track, Data Science Career Track at Springboard
Chinese, English
Github Skills (62)
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
pypi10
python9
sequencing9
data-visualization8
bioconda8
nf-core8
pipeline8
bioconductor8
nextflow8
package-management7
reproducible-research7
minhash7
conda7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Zymo-Research/aladdin-miqScoreShotgun
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Zymo-Research/aladdin-smrnaseq
May 2023 - Sep 2024
Public repository for smRNAseq pipeline compatible with Aladdin platform
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 4 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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