Biography

Chao has been dedicated in the development of phylogenetic algorithms and tools. He developed ASTRAL-IV (for large-scale phylogenetic inference), ASTRAL-Pro (for phylogenetic inference using multi-copy gene families), wASTRAL (for phylogenetic inference with uncertainty), CASTER (for whole-genome-alignment-based phylogenetic inference), WASTER (for cost-efficient phylogenomic reconstruction), D* statistic (for detecting ancient hybridization), and TAPER (for multiple sequence alignment error removal).

• GitHub: https://github.com/chaoszhang
• Gitee: https://gitee.com/chaos_zhang
• Bioconda: https://bioconda.github.io/recipes/aster/README.html

Education

• 2017.9 - 2022.9 Ph.D in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, University of California San Diego
• 2014.8 - 2017.6 B.S in Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California San Diego
• 2014.8 - 2017.6 B.S in Mathematics - Computer Science, University of California San Diego

Professional Experience

• 2025.09 - Now Assistant Professor, Peking University
• 2024.10 - 2025.8 Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
• 2022.11 - 2024.9 Visiting Scholar, University of California Berkeley
• 2022.10 - 2024.9 PostDoc, University of Copenhagen