Douglas Yao
Functional Genomics Technology Development at Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Yao is a Boston-based PhD candidate at Harvard, specializing in functional genomics technology development that blends experimental and computational methods. He led a project to dramatically boost Perturb-seq throughput and cut costs by 90% using compressed-sensing-inspired techniques, with a first-author manuscript in press at Nature Biotechnology. He also conceived and led a statistical genetics study estimating gene-expression–mediated heritability from population data, published in Nature Genetics and cited over 150 times. Prior industry work as a Biomedical Data Scientist at nference connected Mayo Clinic EHR data with public sources to identify novel drug targets and combinations. With a BS from UCLA in Cell and Molecular Biology and a PhD trajectory at Harvard, he combines rigorous quantitative biology with translational impact across academia and industry.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (3)
benchmark1
error-correction1
datasets1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
douglasyao/mesc
Jun 2019 - Jun 2022
Mediated Expression Score Regression (MESC)
Contributions:55 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
douglasyao/douglasyao.github.io
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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