Yuxing Liao - Senior Data Scientist

Yuxing Liao

Senior Data Scientist

New York City Metropolitan Area United States

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Yuxing Liao is a Senior Data Scientist and bioinformatics scientist with 11 years of experience combining multi-omics analysis, protein homology expertise, and full‑stack web development. With a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics, he has led pan-cancer CPTAC proteogenomics studies, authored an R package on CRAN with Rcpp extensions, and builds custom D3.js visualizations to make complex data accessible. He designs and maintains relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, SQLite, MongoDB) and develops backends in Python and PHP while contributing front-end fixes and features to notable open-source Vue.js UI library Buefy. Based in the NYC area, Yuxing brings HPC and Linux-based scientific computing experience and a deep familiarity with protein sequence/structure databases—bridging rigorous computational biology research with production-ready web platforms.

11 years of coding experience

Bachelor of Science (BS), Bioscience, Bachelor of Science (BS), Bioscience at University of Science and Technology of China

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Biophysics at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at University of California, Los Angeles

Chinese, Japanese

Github Skills (14)

uid10

javascript10

component-kit10

front-end-development10

ui-design10

bulma10

vue-jsx10

ui-components10

sliders9

accessibility8

testing8

documentation7

css7

Programming languages (8)

TypeScriptRCSSC++JavaScriptVueJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

buefy/buefy

Feb 2019 - Oct 2019

Lightweight UI components for Vue.js based on Bulma

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:29 commits, 29 PRs, 117 comments in 8 months

Contributions summary:Yuxing primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Vue.js-based UI component library, Buefy. Their work included addressing issues related to component behavior, such as fixing focus issues, double-click events, and incorrect state changes in various UI elements like switches, checkboxes, and radio buttons. Additionally, the user added a new component (Slider) and improved existing components by adding new features such as the 'lazy' prop for the slider and a custom tooltip formatter. They also updated documentation examples and addressed API doc casing inconsistencies.

vue-jsbulmavuebuefyvue-admin

bzhanglab/WebGestaltR

Feb 2018 - May 2022

R package for WebGestalt

Contributions:2 reviews, 250 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 3 months

r-packagetraitsrstatsr

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