Yan Li
Associate Director Of Bioinfromatics
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Li is an Associate Director of Bioinformatics with a decade of experience building and leading NGS analysis pipelines and cloud-enabled computational workflows at the University of Chicago. He specializes in RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq and single-cell sequencing analyses, and has a strong track record of automating scalable pipelines and developing interactive visualization tools to accelerate biological insight. His background blends PhD-level expertise in bioinformatics, biostatistics and epidemiology with hands-on work in machine learning and mathematical modeling applied to biomarker discovery and CRISPR analysis. Yan’s work has supported multiple published collaborations and he often pairs production-grade pipeline engineering with RShiny visual analytics to make results accessible to scientists. Based in Chicago, he brings both leadership in core bioinformatics services and a practical habit of translating complex computational methods into reproducible, user-facing tools.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of GeorgiaMaster, Plant Pathology, Master, Plant Pathology at Deaprtment of Plant Pathology, UGAMaster, Statistics, 3.8, Master, Statistics, 3.8 at Department of Statistics, UGA
English, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
bioinformatics8
slurm7
reproducible-science7
singularity7
reproducible-research7
nextflow7
aws6
r-package6
pipeline5
hpc5
shiny5
htmlwidgets5
dsl5
groovy5
dataflow5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yan-cri/DEApp
Jul 2015 - Jun 2022
DEAPP shiny App
Contributions:95 commits, 31 pushes, 4 comments in 6 years 11 months
yan-cri/DEApp_standalone
Sep 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:9 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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