Ning Leng
Director II, Data And AI Acceleration
South San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNing Leng is a Director-level data and AI leader with 11 years of experience applying statistical rigor and modern software to accelerate data-driven drug development. Currently leading Data and AI Acceleration at AbbVie after spearheading global data science modernization at Genentech, Ning has driven cloud-based clinical reporting infrastructure and R-based tooling that supported the industry’s first R-powered regulatory filings. A PhD-trained statistician who codes, she blends product and people leadership—managing teams of 10–40, hiring at scale, and fostering cross-company developer communities—to translate complex clinical data into accessible, actionable insights. Ning is active in the R ecosystem and industry groups (R Consortium, Pharmaverse, BSLC, BBSW), uniquely positioning her to bridge regulators, open-source practices, and enterprise workflows. Colleagues describe her as both a visionary and a pragmatic executor who prototypes change via pilot programs that scale across global clinical portfolios. Based in South San Francisco, she pairs deep domain expertise with a proven track record of turning innovation into regulatory-impacting deliverables.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.S. Information and Computing Science, B.S. Information and Computing Science at Beijing Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (21)
r-package10
seq9
rna-seq8
bam7
bioinformatics7
structural-variation7
ordered7
fasta6
cancer-genomics6
bioconda5
genomics5
r5
shiny4
adam4
survival3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lengning/gClinBiomarker
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
RConsortium/submissions-pilot1-to-fda
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
eCTD package for pilot1 submission to FDA
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 6 months
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