Tinyi Chu
Assistant Professor at University of Virginia School of Medicine
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTinyi Chu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine with 11 years of experience bridging computational biology and biomedical research. Trained with a PhD in Computational Biology from Cornell and postdoctoral stints at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Yale, she develops computational approaches to dissect complex biological systems and translate findings toward medical science. Her trajectory reflects deep quantitative skill applied in clinical research environments, combining algorithm development with hands-on experimental collaboration. Based in Ithaca, she brings an academic-first perspective that emphasizes reproducible, data-driven discovery and mentorship of interdisciplinary teams. An early-career faculty who moved from top cancer and biomedical centers into a tenure-track role, she is positioned to scale computational methods into impactful translational studies.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology at Cornell UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English
Github Skills (15)
gene-expression10
bayesian9
computational-biology8
factor8
transcription8
sequencing8
bayesian-inference8
composition8
genomics7
bioinformatics7
inference6
rna-seq2
seq2
python1
single-cell-genomics1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Danko-Lab/TED
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
a fully Bayesian approach to deconvolve tumor microenvironment
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 71 pushes in 2 years 6 months
approachtumor-microenvironmentdeconvolvetumorbayesian
dpeerlab/SpaceFold_paper
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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