Le Si Quang

Quang completed a PhD in Computer Science at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology under supervision of Professor Ho Tu Bao where he worked on similarity for complex structure objects. He did his first postdoc in molecular biology at LIRMM with Professor Olivier Gascuel where he introduced many protein evolution models. He joined the group of Dr. Richard Durbin on the 1000 Genome Project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Insitute for 2.5 year postdoc before becoming a member of the Kwiatkowski group as a senior statistician. He is working on many projects, GWAS for severe malaria, Gambia Genome Diversity Project, Africa Human Reference Panels, etc. From Feb 2016, Quang starts the new role as senior fellowship in bioinformatics at the University of Portsmouth. Quang has published more than 30 articles which have been cited more than 4,000 times.