Zhonghui Xu
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Superluminal Medicines Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolZhonghui Xu is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience at the interface of bioinformatics, statistical genomics, and AI-driven precision medicine. He has led large-scale RNA-seq pipelines and multi-thousand-sample studies at Harvard Medical School, developed production-ready WDL workflows on Terra/Google Cloud, and now applies ML to drug discovery at Superluminal Medicines. His work blends methodological innovation—published methods for model interpretability, calibrated probabilistic outputs, and gene-set testing—with practical tools (godiva, imop, voomst) used in biomarker and multi-omic studies. Notably, he’s translated statistical research into software and cloud workflows that scaled to the largest sequencing cohorts in COPD and TOPMed, and has a track record of mentoring and cross-disciplinary collaboration across academia, NIH, and industry.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Molecular Biology and Genetics, Master’s Degree Molecular Biology and Genetics at Wayne State UniversityBachelor’s Degree Biological Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree Biological Sciences at Fudan UniversityGithub contributions (4)
pacifly/PADOG
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 23 days
pacifly/testCapecod
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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