Joshua Chiou
Senior Advisor at Eli Lilly and Company
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Chiou is a computational scientist and senior advisor with 9+ years translating human genetics, single-cell genomics, and machine learning into drug discovery impact across industry and academia. He has led cross-functional target identification programs at Pfizer—modernizing workflows with LLMs, cloud data lakehouses, and CRISPR screen prioritization—and now advises at Eli Lilly. His work spans end-to-end analytics: GWAS and biobank-driven target discovery, deep learning models for genomic data, Nextflow pipelines for statistical genetics, and visualization platforms that inform portfolio decisions. A Nature and Nature Genetics first-author during his PhD, he pairs rigorous publication track record with practical assay and diagnostic experience (including a companion diagnostic acquisition), and a habit of mentoring junior scientists.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, English
Github Skills (19)
r-package10
genetic10
analytical10
bioinformatics9
fine-mapping9
genomics9
conda8
r8
conda-forge7
gwas6
statistics4
data-processing4
python3
pipeline3
single-cell-genomics3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joshchiou/pipelines
Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
Lab data processing pipelines
Contributions:22 pushes in 3 years 4 months
pipelinedata-sciencedata-processingdata-processing-pipelinespipelines
joshchiou/joshchiou.github.io
Apr 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 68 pushes, 14 branches in 1 month
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