Pak Yu
Research Bioinformatician II
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPak Yu is a Research Bioinformatician II with nine years of cross-sector experience translating molecular biology questions into robust computational workflows, currently focused on gene regulation in epithelial ovarian cancer and endometriosis at Cedars-Sinai. He blends hands-on sequencing pipeline development (bulk and single-cell RNA-seq, Visium spatial, CUT&Tag, Hi-C) with data engineering for HPC and cloud, and has led pilots introducing new NGS assays into translational studies. Comfortable partnering with clinicians and bench scientists, he documents best practices, manages genomic data lifecycles for public repositories, and mentors undergraduate analysts. Earlier roles in CLIA-focused DevOps and biomedical curation sharpened his quality-driven approach to reproducible pipelines and clinical-grade data handling. He pairs formal training in bioinformatics and molecular biology (MSc, UCLA BS) with practical lab experience, giving him rare fluency across experiments, computation, and clinical workflows. Colleagues rely on him not only for technical delivery but also for fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration through regular computational biology forums.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Continuing StudiesMaster of Science - MS Bioinformatics with System Biology, Master of Science - MS Bioinformatics with System Biology at Birkbeck, University of LondonUniversity of California, Los AngelesCertificate Computing skills for scientists, Certificate Computing skills for scientists at City College of San Francisco
English, Chinese
Github Skills (30)
seq9
rna-seq8
genomics6
bioinformatics6
python6
snakemake6
linux5
conda5
cut5
package-management4
sparse4
pipeline3
scalable3
ecosystem3
encode3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sfpacman/Genome_Browser
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:77 commits, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
sfpacman/sfpacman.github.io
Mar 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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