Dongbo Hu Programmer / Analyst Department of Genetics Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 422 Clinical Research Building 415 Curie Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19104-6145

Work Experience

Senior Programmer / Analyst (2011 – present)
Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

• Built user-friendly computational pipelines to process population-level variation data to infer human evolutionary history and explore genetic architecture of complex traits.
• Designed and maintained MySQL databases that include millions of DNA sequencing records to assist with analysis of high throughput genomics datasets.
• Optimized DNA analysis algorithms in C and C++, improved code portability, scalability and maintainability.

Programmer / Analyst (2002-2011)
Center for Functional Neuroimaging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

• Developed software package VoxBo (http://www.voxbo.org) in C, C++ and QT toolkit to process and display brain imaging data collected from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners.
• Converted imaging processing procedures from MATLAB to platform-independent C/C++ libraries.