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Basics

Name Zhuoyan (Skylar) Li
Label Current affiliation: Computational Biologist at NYGC
Email skylar.zhuoyan.li@gmail.com

Education

  • 2019.09 - 2023.05
    Bachelor of Science
    Columbia University in the City of New York
    Biomedical Engineering
    • Minor in Art History
    • Graduated Cum Laude
    • Named Egleston Scholar

Work

  • 2023.07 - Present

    New York, NY

    Computational Biologist
    New York Genome Center, Satija Lab
    Developing and maintaining Seurat for single-cell analysis, including functionality for high-resolution whole transcriptome spatial data and integrating machine learning for rapid cell type annotation.
  • 2022.06 - 2022.08

    New York, NY

    U.S. Medical Devices Summer Research Associate
    AllianceBernstein
    Produced a competitive analysis of orthopedic suppliers and developed a web-scraping tool to quantify med-tech corporate management capabilities.
  • 2022.01 - 2023.05

    New York, NY

    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Columbia University, Synthetic Biological Systems Lab
    Investigated engineered bacterial swarming patterns and developed Transcrobial, a GAN for generating macroscopic bacterial images with under 200 samples.
  • 2021.05 - 2021.08

    Tokyo, Japan

    Software Engineering Intern
    Sony Interactive Entertainment
    Led front-end development of PlayStation Network features, optimized API latency by 25%, and built a UI component library with Storybook.
  • 2021.04 - 2021.05

    Kobe, Japan

    R&D Intern
    Procter & Gamble
    Developed quantitative methods to compare fabric care products and led improvements to internal image analysis methods.
  • 2021.01 - 2021.03

    Tokyo, Japan

    Research Assistant
    University of Tokyo Edge Capital
    Analyzed data on private biotech companies and performed due diligence for biotech investments.

Awards

Skills

Programming Languages
R
Python
Java
JavaScript/TypeScript
MATLAB
HTML/CSS
Bash
Frameworks & Libraries
React
Express.js
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Keras
Scikit-learn
Snakemake
Tools
Git
Docker
VS Code
AWS
Postman
Selenium
Adobe Illustrator
LaTeX
ImageJ
Languages
English
Japanese
Chinese
French (in progress!)