Department of Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
615 N Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21205-2179
Phone: (410)502-3365
Email: hwu at jhsph dot edu
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Hao Wu, Ph.D. student
Department of Biostatistics Phone: (410)502-3365 |
In early 2000 I started to work in a branch of GE Energy as an engineer. I was in a team to develop and customize software for power system controls and optimizations. The everyday work was C and Fortran programming. In mid 2001, my wife got her Ph.D. in biology and found a job in Maine. I quitted my job and moved with her.
From July 2001 to August 2005, I worked as a scientific software engineer at The Jackson Laboratory in Dr. Gary Churchill's lab. Gary's group is a statistical genetics group developing statistical and computational tools for genetics and molecular biology research. I learnt a lot in those four years through my work and was exposed to the fancinating world of genetics and genomics researches. I developed and co-developed several software packages for QTL mapping and Gene Expression data analysis. See Software page for details.
I became a senior software engineer in early 2005 and felt the learning curve was saturated as a programmer. I have an urge to go back to graduate school and study math/statistics and biology in a systematical and rigorous way. Now I'm a Ph.D. student in Biostatistics and feeling happy about it. My goal is to pursue an academic career after graduation and to conduct research on biostatistics/bioinformatics/computational biology.