Lixing Yang
Associate Professor
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolLixing Yang is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago with 9 years postdoctoral and faculty experience specializing in computational biology, genomics, and cancer biology. He develops algorithms for detecting copy number and structural variations and applies rigorous bioinformatic and statistical analysis to large-scale sequencing projects such as TCGA. Trained as a geneticist (Ph.D., University of Georgia) and seasoned by a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School, he blends method development in Perl and R with hands-on analysis of whole-genome and targeted sequencing data. His work sits at the intersection of algorithm design and translational cancer genomics, enabling clearer interpretation of complex genomic rearrangements for research and potential clinical impact.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Github Skills (1)
atlas5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
guru-yang/test
Sep 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:160 pushes in 7 years 5 months
yanglab-computationalgenomics/Starfish
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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