Lei Li
Lead Bioinformatics Research Scientist
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Li is a Lead Bioinformatics Research Scientist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with nine years of experience developing computational tools and algorithms for biological research, particularly in single-cell multi-modal data and B cell biology. Trained as a systems engineer (PhD) and seasoned through postdoctoral roles at University of Chicago and Mississippi State, Lei blends rigorous mathematical modeling with practical bioinformatics to tackle vaccine-related and immunology questions. He has a track record of creating novel multi-task sparse learning and prediction models from genome sequences and now applies that algorithmic rigor to single-cell analysis pipelines. Based in Memphis, Lei maintains an active scholarly and open-science presence via a personal academic site, GitHub, and Google Scholar, signaling ongoing commitment to reproducible computational biology.
9 years of coding experience
Research Assistant, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Research Assistant, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Miami UniversityMaster's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Master's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Systems Engineering at Xiamen University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (16)
virus7
sequencing6
next-generation-sequencing5
placement4
genome4
mutation4
crud4
genomics3
jquery-plugin3
ajax3
bioinformatics3
microbiology3
science3
sequence-alignment2
microbiome2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LeiLi-Uchicago/LeiLi-Uchicago
Jun 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
WilsonImmunologyLab/Librator
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 519 commits, 69 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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