Yu-cheng Lin - Associate Professor

Yu-cheng Lin

Associate Professor

New Taipei, Taiwan

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Yu-cheng Lin is an associate professor and computational biologist with nine years of experience bridging molecular biology, cancer genomics, and machine learning to drive NGS-informed discovery. Trained as a dentist and later earning a PhD in Biological Sciences from Columbia, he combines clinical insight with deep expertise in Python, cloud computing, and bioinformatics. His career spans academic research and industry roles—including postdoc work in Boston and data-science driven computational biology at LifeMine in New York—bringing both translational and production-facing perspectives. He leads research and teaching at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, developing reproducible pipelines and ML models for cancer genomics. Known for pragmatic, code-first problem solving, he routinely integrates scalable cloud workflows with experimental design to accelerate hypothesis testing.

10 years of coding experience

10 years of employment as a software developer

Master of Science (MS) Microbiology and Biochemistry, Master of Science (MS) Microbiology and Biochemistry at National Taiwan University

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological Sciences at Columbia University

English, Chinese

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (8)

opencv9

next-generation-sequencing7

pyqt6

camera-calibration6

qt6

webcam-capture6

python6

data-analysis3

Programming languages (4)

PerlJupyter NotebookWDLPython

Github contributions (5)

linyc74/locus_hunter

Nov 2020 - Feb 2026

Locus Hunter for Prokaryotic Genomes

Contributions:4 releases, 10 PRs, 38 pushes in 5 years 3 months

locusgenomeshuntergenomicsbioinformatics

linyc74/Qiime2App

Dec 2023 - Jun 2026

Contributions:15 releases, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months

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