Yi Hsiao
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolYi Hsiao is a bioinformatics-focused scientist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan with 11 years of experience bridging computational methods and biological discovery. Trained in bioinformatics, biomedical electronics, chemistry and electrical engineering, Yi applies machine learning, proteomics and proteogenomics to cancer research and computer-aided drug design. Past roles span industry and academia—building drug-repurposing pipelines for COVID-19, HLA typing of population WGS, voice-enabled genome interpretation tools, and accelerated proteomics analysis services—demonstrating a knack for turning domain knowledge into production-ready software. Notably, Yi has delivered high-impact ML models in reproductive medicine and optimized mass-spec proteomics pipelines to run 4x faster, reflecting both practical engineering and biological insight. Based in Ann Arbor, Yi combines deep technical breadth with hands-on experience in translational projects that move from algorithm to lab-ready results.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, Master's degree Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics at National Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at University of Michigan Medical School
Chinese, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/Peptides-SpecTra-Annotations-PaSTA
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
an analysis workflow to generate annotated peptide sequence from proteomic spectra using containerized tools.
Contributions:35 commits, 5 PRs, 36 pushes in 9 days
workflowsequencecontainerizedannotatedspectra
MonashProteomics/FragPipe-Analyst
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:29 releases, 20 PRs, 241 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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