Lun Yu
Co-Founder And CTO at MetaNovas Biotech
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolLun Yu is a founder and technical leader with nine years of experience applying ML and data science to healthcare and biotech, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of MetaNovas Biotech in Mountain View. Trained as an MIT PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering, Lun transitioned from applied research to industry roles—senior and principal data scientist positions at Aetna/CVS and Rally Health—building recommender systems and production ML/DL pipelines. He blends deep quantitative rigor with product-minded engineering, especially in behavioral-economics-informed models for health engagement. At MetaNovas he drives the intersection of data science, clinical impact, and scalable engineering rather than just algorithmic novelty. Colleagues describe him as passionate about improving patient outcomes, a thread that began in lab research and now underpins his startup work. His background suggests a rare mix of hard-science discipline and pragmatic startup execution.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Nuclear Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Nuclear Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor Nuclear Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, German, Japanese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (153)
language-detection10
python10
deep-learning10
part-of-speech-tagger10
machine-learning10
azure-cosmos-db9
spark-ml9
neural-network9
sentiment-analysis9
null-safety9
entity-extraction9
pyspark9
cognitive-services9
data-science9
tensorflow9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rallyhealth/pytalite
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 1 month
victorconan/CFG_project
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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