Yu Huang
Senior Director Of Bioinformatics
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolYu Huang is a Senior Director of Bioinformatics with 13 years of experience building AI models, algorithms, and distributed computing platforms for personalized medicine and drug design. He leads bioinformatics at GeneCast Biotech and runs a research group at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, where his lab delivers target discovery, biomarker pipelines, and virtual screening models. His background spans industry and academia—from Illumina algorithm and workflow engineering (including a high-performance VCF parser and parallel DAG workflows) to postdoctoral work on pedigree genomics and large-scale NGS databases. Trained with a PhD from USC and a B.S. from Fudan, he blends deep statistical genetics with practical software engineering to move computational methods into production. Notably, he maintains the yfish.org resource, reflecting a commitment to community-facing databases alongside cutting-edge AI-driven drug discovery.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, PhD Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University of Southern CaliforniaB.S. Biological Sciences, B.S. Biological Sciences at Fudan UniversityShanghai Chuansha High School
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
polyactis/transfac
Apr 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 4 years
polyactis/Accucopy
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 17 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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