Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Jieming Shi

Jieming Shi, first author of GRF: a generic and high-sensitivity tool for genome-wide de novo repeat detection

Current Position: Software Engineer, TrustiPhi LLC, Ohio, US

Education: PhD, Miami University, Ohio, US

Non-scientific Interests: Software Development

Brief bio: Jieming Shi is a software developer with a solid understanding and focus on algorithms and data structures. Prior to TrustiPhi, Jieming was a significant contributor at the bioinformatics laboratory at Miami University (http://bioinfolab.miamioh.edu/bioinfolab/) for 4 years, developing high-performance software and web applications analyzing next-generation sequencing data. Jieming has developed a collection of open-source software tools and published several academic papers related to novel computational algorithms, high-performance computing, and big data analysis.