Yilin Xu
Associate Director
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolYilin Xu is an Associate Director in Chicago with 10 years of experience driving biomarker-driven precision medicine and bioinformatics programs across industry and academia. At AbbVie she leads cross-functional teams building production analytics platforms (SABER, ATOMS, CAMPAIGN) that accelerate hypothesis generation, molecular patient stratification, and automated ML for patient selection in clinical development. Her background blends a PhD in Microbiology & Immunology with applied data science and organizational leadership, enabling her to translate complex multi-omics and clinical data into actionable strategies for CDx and trial design. Earlier roles at the University of Chicago and Northwestern honed her skills in data commons architecture, sequencing pipelines, and integrative genomics, giving her both hands-on technical depth and program-level delivery experience. Colleagues describe her as a strategic collaborator who thrives in matrixed environments and turns translational science into scalable analytics products.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Microbiology and Immunology at Wuhan UniversityMaster's degree Organizational Leadership, Master's degree Organizational Leadership at Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic ProgramsMaster's degree Regulatory Compliance, Master's degree Regulatory Compliance at Northwestern UniversityMaster's degree Applied Data Science , Master's degree Applied Data Science at University of Chicago
English, Chinese
Github Skills (50)
metadata10
data-dictionary10
dictionary10
portal10
commons9
indexing9
data-management9
devops9
golang9
pathogen9
windmill9
python8
evolution8
etl-automation8
bioinformatics7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
uc-cdis/ndhdictionary
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
Data dictionary for NIAID Commons project
Contributions:25 releases, 127 commits, 88 PRs in 1 year 6 months
dictionarycommonsdata-managementpythonopendata
uc-cdis/ndh-demo
Apr 2018 - Dec 2019
Jupyter notebook and shinyR apps for NIAID Data Hub demo
Contributions:50 commits, 44 pushes in 1 year 8 months
emrjupyter-notebooknotebookjupyterlabjupyter
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