(Last updated April 15 2023). Resume in PDF form here.
Education
- Princeton University
- PhD in Computer Science
- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Master of Science in the Program of Ecology, Evolution and Conservation - Master Thesis: “Performing Phylogenetic Placement at Scale”
- The University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- High School Diploma
Honors & Fellowships
- RECOMB-CCB Scientific Communications (2022) 1st Place (Awarded $200).
- Genetics Society of America: Presidential Membership Initiative (2022). Awarded 1-year membership to GSA, Early Career Leadership Program and GENETICS Peer Review Training Program.
- NSF GRFP (5 years), 2021: Three-year annual stipend of $34,000.
- Excellent Graduate Student Instructor, UIUC. Spring 2021. Introduction to Programming for Engineers and Scientists (CS101).
Publications
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Wang, Yongge, et al. “Sperax: An Approach To Defeat Long Range Attacks In Blockchains.” IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS). IEEE, 2020.
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Tournebize, R., Chu, G. and Moorjani, P., 2022. Reconstructing the history of founder events using genome-wide patterns of allele sharing across individuals. PLoS Genetics, 18(6), p.e1010243.
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Lalani, Z., Chu, G., Hsu, S., Zaccaria, S. and El-Kebir, M., 2022. User-guided local and global copy-number segmentation for tumor sequencing data. RECOMB-CCB.
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Lalani, Z., Chu, G., Hsu, S., Kagawa, S., Xiang, M., Zaccaria, S. and El-Kebir, M., 2022. CNAViz: An interactive webtool for user-guided segmentation of tumor DNA sequencing data. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(10), p.e1010614.
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Park, M., Ivanovic, S., Chu, G., Shen, C. and Warnow, T., 2022. UPP2: Fast and Accurate Alignment Estimation of Datasets with Fragmentary Sequences. Bioinformatics.
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Chu, G., and Warnow, T. “SCAMPP+ FastTree: Improving Scalability for Likelihood-based Phylogenetic Placement.” Bioinformatics Advances (2023): vbad008.
Professional Experience
- Consensys, Software Engineering Internship
- Databricks, Software Engineering Internship
Teaching Experience
UIUC
- Intro to Programming for Engineers and Scientists (CS101)
University of California, Berkeley
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Bioinformatics Bootcamp
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Operating Systems and System Programming (CS162)
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Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems (CS170)
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Dicrete Mathematics and Probability (CS70)
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Building with Blockchain for Web 3.0
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Blockchain Fundamentals
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Blockchain for Enterprise
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Blockchain for Lawyers
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EdX Blockchain Fundamentals
Community Service
- Shield the Bay
- Berkeley ANova