Yi Zhang
Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Zhang is an Assistant Professor at Duke University with a decade of experience developing statistical and machine learning methods for large-scale genomics and cancer research. Trained with a PhD from UIUC and a BSc from USTC, Yi leads a lab at the intersection of computational biology, bioinformatics, and cancer genomics, recruiting graduate students and postdocs to tackle data-driven biomedical discovery. Their work emphasizes scalable analysis of genomics data to translate complex molecular signals into actionable insights for neuroscience and oncology. Based in Durham, NC, Yi blends rigorous academic training with practical tool-building and open engagement—maintaining an active lab website and GitHub presence to share methods and foster collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at University of Science and Technology of ChinaUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
spatial-transcriptomics9
computational-biology8
high-resolution8
statistical-learning8
bioinformatics7
machine-learning5
react3
nextjs2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yi-zhang/yi-zhang.github.io
Aug 2018 - Oct 2023
Personal website
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
reactnextjs
yi-zhang/MetaTiME
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 24 commits, 28 pushes in 7 months
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