Yuanwei Xu
Postdoctoral Researcher at The Johns Hopkins University
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuanwei Xu is a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with 11 years of research experience bridging chemical and biomolecular engineering, applied mathematics, and pathology. Trained with a PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and dual MEng degrees from Johns Hopkins, he advances biomarker discovery and translational proteomics in Hui Zhang’s lab. His background spans pharmaceutical sciences, synthetic biology, and human-practice leadership from early iGEM work, giving him a rare mix of wet-lab rigor and quantitative modeling skills. Yuanwei’s trajectory moved rapidly from undergraduate research in biomimetic drugs to summer synthetic biology projects at UC Davis and multi-year doctoral work at a leading translational center. He combines hands-on experimental design with statistical and computational approaches to extract clinically relevant signals from complex biological data. Colleagues note his ability to translate technical depth into translational impact across academia–industry interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS, Pharmaceutical Sciences at Peking UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
English, Chinese
Github Skills (20)
bioinformatics7
tidy6
tidymodels6
tsne6
tibble5
transmission5
tidyverse5
r5
network-graph5
graph4
dplyr4
property-graph4
tabular3
visualization3
network-visualization3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yuanwxu/TransPhylo
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
Reconstruction of transmission trees using genomic data
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
reconstructiontransmissionpythonpopulation-geneticsbioinformatics
yuanwxu/mbpert
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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