Christopher Yau
Senior Research Fellow at Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristopher Yau is a Senior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford and a Turing Fellow who bridges statistical methodology, genomics and machine learning to advance clinical application of health data. With over a decade of academic leadership—including professorships at Manchester and Birmingham, a Wellcome Trust group leadership and an MRC fellowship—he designs quantitative methods for genomic medicine and co-directs a national PhD programme in Health Data Science. His training spans engineering at Cambridge and a D.Phil in Statistics from Oxford, and his work uniquely combines Bayesian/statistical rigour with scalable computational approaches (including early GPU-accelerated particle filtering). Active on national research panels and Genomics England initiatives, he translates methodological research into clinical impact across genomics, functional interpretation and ML-driven decision support.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
D.Phil, Statistics, D.Phil, Statistics at University of OxfordMA (Hons)/MEng, Information and Computer Engineering, MA (Hons)/MEng, Information and Computer Engineering at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (12)
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perfect-numbers6
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health-data6
science5
rna-seq4
single-cell-analysis3
bioinformatics3
data-science3
inference1
probabilistic1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cwcyau/academic-kickstart-2
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:85 commits, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
cwcyau/hdruk-phd-handbook
May 2020 - Oct 2023
Handbook for the HDRUK-Turing PhD Programme in Health Data Science
Contributions:15 PRs, 138 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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