Areas of Focus
- Genomics and Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS)
- Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
- Computer Vision
- Multi-omics Analysis
- Bioinformatics Algorithm Development
Work Experience
- 2013.6-2020.12 - Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology - Genomic assembly and comparison, association analysis, structural mutations, big data and AI; responsible for managing and analyzing all high-throughput data
- 2009.1-2013.6 - Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics & Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford - Genomic assembly and comparative algorithm development, NGS data analysis
- 2007.1-2009.1 - Department of Computer Science, King's College London - Protein structure prediction, medical imaging
- 2006.10-2007.1 - Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong - Microarray gene expression data analysis
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2001-2006 PhD in Information Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
- 1998-2001 Master's in Information and Communication Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University
- 1994-1998 Bachelor of Engineering in Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Publications
- GALA: a computational framework for de novo chromosome-by-chromosome assembly with long reads, Awad Mohamed, Xiangchao Gan, 2023
- An Integrated Fast Hough Transform for Multidimensional Data, Li Yanhui, Xiangchao Gan, 2023
