Haojing Shao

May 27, 2025

Shao Haojing, an overseas high-level talent in Shenzhen, is currently an associate researcher at AGIS, CAAS. From January 2014 to August 2018, he pursued his Ph.D. degree at the University of Queensland. From September 2018 to June 2020, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Queensland. He is the principal investigator of the National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists (2023.01-2025.12, RMB 300,000). His main research focuses on the frontier cross-disciplinary and translational applications of genomics big data, as well as new methods and technologies. He is responsible for the development of high-precision short-insertion deletion variation detection among multiple samples, analysis of polymorphism and evolution of human chromosome end repetitive sequences, and the development of inversion variation detection algorithms based on third-generation long-read sequencing sequences spanning repetitive sequences. He has published over 14 papers or reviews in top international journals such as Nature and Science, with a total citation count exceeding 8,000. In the past five years, he has published four SCI papers as the first (including co-authorship) or corresponding author in journals such as PNAS, Scientific Reports, BMC Bioinformatics, and IJMS.

Working Experience

2020.08 - Present Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS),  Associate Researcher. 

2018.09 - 2020.06 The University of Queensland Australia Postdoctoral Fellow

2009.03 - 2013.12 Shenzhen-Beijing Genomics Institute Leader of a Bioinformatics group

Education Experience

2014.01 - 2018.08 The University of Queensland, Australia Ph.D

2006.09 - 2010.06 South China University of Technology Bachelor


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