CV

Education

• Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
• M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
• B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012

Work experience

• Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
  • GitHub University
  • Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
  • Supervisor: The Users
• Fall 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Hub
• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Tagging issues
  • Supervisor: Professor Git

Skills

• Skill 1
• Skill 2
  • Sub-skill 2.1
  • Sub-skill 2.2
  • Sub-skill 2.3
• Skill 3

Publications

WASTER: Practical de novo phylogenomics from low-coverage short reads

Chao Zhang, Rasmus Nielsen, "WASTER: Practical de novo phylogenomics from low-coverage short reads." Molecular Biology and Evolution. (2026).

ASTER: A Package for Large-scale Phylogenomic Reconstructions

Chao Zhang, Rasmus Nielsen, Siavash Mirarab, "ASTER: A Package for Large-scale Phylogenomic Reconstructions." Molecular Biology and Evolution. (2025).

CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments

Chao Zhang, Rasmus Nielsen, Siavash Mirarab, "CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments." Science. (2025).

Talks

Teaching

Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics

Bioinformatics Algorithms in Evolutionary Biology

Service and leadership

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