Yolanda Diao
Senior Scientist II, Computational Biology, Systems Immunology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolYolanda Diao is a computational immunologist and Senior Scientist II at BioNTech with eight years of experience applying machine learning and statistical genomics to systems immunology. She holds a Ph.D. from Scripps Research and an MS in Computer Science, and is known for rapid, data-driven solutions whose predictive insights have driven multiple top-tier publications and multimillion-dollar funding. Her work spans high-dimensional NGS and single-cell analyses (ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, RNA-seq) to uncover regulatory programs in CD8 T cells, combined with hands-on ML model development. Based in Cambridge, she blends academic rigor and production-focused thinking to translate complex biological data into actionable hypotheses. An unusual strength is her data intuition that both speeds discovery and improves experimental design, bridging bench and computational teams.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Biology/Biological Sciences General, Bachelor's degree Biology/Biological Sciences General at Nankai UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics and Immunology at Scripps ResearchMicroMasters Statistics and Data Science, MicroMasters Statistics and Data Science at MITx CoursesMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyExchange Student Forest Sciences and Biology, Exchange Student Forest Sciences and Biology at Hokkaido University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (18)
tsne10
computational-biology10
unix9
get-started9
biology9
bioinformatics9
gnu9
systems-biology9
linux7
shell7
seq4
garden3
continuum3
autoencoder3
denoising2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Yolanda-HT/CS6310_Software_Architecture_and_Design
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:42 commits, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
Yolanda-HT/YoloCookBlob
Apr 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:201 commits, 335 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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