Lily Xu
Director, Clinical Data Science
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLily Xu is an experienced clinical data science leader with a decade of deep technical and research roots, now directing Clinical Data Science at Vertex in Greater Boston. She progressed through research and data science roles—from PhD work in biological engineering at MIT and early research at Broad Institute and UC Berkeley to industry positions at Philips and Vertex—bridging wet-lab insight with production analytics. Lily specializes in turning complex biological and clinical datasets into actionable evidence for drug development, having advanced rapidly from senior scientist to director within Vertex. Her background as an athlete and team leader (co-captain of MIT Women’s Ice Hockey) and longtime mentor informs a collaborative, high-performance management style. She brings uncommon fluency across experimental design, statistical modeling, and cross-functional translation between R&D and clinical teams.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Bioengineering, B.S. Bioengineering at University of California, BerkeleyPh.D. Biological Engineering, Ph.D. Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBioengineering, Bioengineering at De Anza College
English, Chinese
Github Skills (29)
intervention9
react9
pipenv8
corona8
typescript8
visualization8
ui-components7
json-api7
webapp6
api6
python6
react-components6
antd6
heroku5
rest-api5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lxu213/lxu213.github.io
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
lxu213/saudi-arabia-rainfall-forecaster
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 8 months
forecastingsaudi-arabiakingdomsyntheticsaudi
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