Xuyan Ru
Senior Advisor, Model-Driven Drug Discovery at Eli Lilly and Company
Zionsville, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolXuyan Ru is a computational chemist and model-driven drug discovery leader with a Ph.D. from Duke University and a decade of experience translating quantum chemistry and cheminformatics into practical drug design platforms. At Eli Lilly she built and maintained an in-house generation–evaluation–optimization loop, applied deep learning and multi-objective optimization to propose novel molecules, and now advises MD3 strategy. Her academic work uncovered biological electron-transfer mechanisms in bacterial nanowires and refined tools for chemical-space exploration, demonstrating a rare blend of quantum-level insight and scalable algorithm engineering. Based in Zionsville, IN, she pairs rigorous research chops with hands-on platform development, often bridging electronic-structure theory and generative models to accelerate prospective molecular discovery.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Chemistry at Duke UniversityBachelor's Degree, Pharmacy, GPA 3.73, Bachelor's Degree, Pharmacy, GPA 3.73 at Nankai UniversityHigh School, High School at Shandong Experimental High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
console6
quake5
hotkeys4
shell4
windows4
command-line4
splits4
conemu3
windows-terminal2
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Tacsy/ACSESS
Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:61 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
Tacsy/scripts_repository
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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