Bryant Duong

I am a Genomics & Computational Biology PhD student at Penn advised by Professors Li Shen and Noam Auslander.

I was previously a Master’s research assistant in the Auslander Lab in 2024/2025 and a software engineer for 6.5 years at Optum working on production CI/CD pipelines and EHR/insurance claims databases. In summer 2023, I interned at the National Institutes of Health, conducting bioinformatics research in Dr. Zhiyong Lu’s lab. Between 2015 and 2017, I was a Stokes Scholar at the National Security Agency.

I received a Master’s in Computer & Information Technology from Penn, MBA from UC Davis, and a BA in Cognitive Science from Berkeley. Outside of work, I mentor junior engineers/college students looking to make a career transition into tech/academia and collect anime production cels.