Yu S. Huang
Senior Director of Bioinformatics @ Genecast
About
Please check https://www.yfish.org/.AI models, algorithms, AI computing infrastructure in drug design, virtual screening, multicancer early detection, precision medicine (target discovery, validation, biomarker). With one AI designed molecule entering the PCC phase. 2016 China Thousand-Talent Program, 2015 CAS Hundred-Talent Program.
China
Shanghai
Biotechnology
Statistical Modeling, Distributed Computing, Database, Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, AIDD, Linux Network Administration, Distributed File System (DFS), Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Sequencing, Molecular Cloning, Systems Biology, R, Sequence Analysis, Neuroscience
Experience

Senior Director of Bioinformatics
- Define and execute long-term technical strategy for AI-driven precision oncology, aligned with corporate product pipelines and business goals. - Lead the development of multimodal AI platforms integrating sequence, structure, and epigenomic data for non-invasive cancer detection. - Built enterprise-grade AI computing infrastructure (K8s, PyTorch, distributed storage, high-speed interconnect) to support large-scale computing. - Lead and mentor a high-performance team of algorithm scientists, bioinformaticians, and software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions from in silico modeling to experimental validation. - Led cross-disciplinary team management and promoted tight integration between computational models and experimental biology. - External scientific engagement, conference presentations, high-impact publications, and IP strategy; drove research-to-product translation. - Optimize core bioinformatics algorithms using Deep/Machine/Statistical Learning techniques. - AI models for fixed-panel and custom-panel MRD (Minimal Residual Disease). - Teach Bayesian Statistics, Machine/Deep Learning, Julia/Rust Programming.

Professor, Principal Investigator
Drug Discovery and Design Center, Shanghai Institute of Material Medica, CAS
Shanghai, China
- Led the establishment of AI-driven computational biology and drug discovery center and built a mature structure-based drug design & virtual screening system. - Developed Fergie (VAE-based small molecule generation) and Deffini (structure-based virtual screening DNN) to enable structure-guided drug design at scale, with one molecule entering the PCC phase. - Developed core algorithms for genomic variant calling, copy number analysis, and methylation sequencing to support early-stage innovative drug R&D. - Directed national/provincial research projects, built academic-industry partnerships, and delivered high-impact publications. - Taught "Artificial Intelligence" & "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning". - Taught Julia programming language, Matrix Computations, Optimization. - 2015 CAS Hundred-Talent Program, 2016 China Thousand-Talent Program. - http://www.yfish.org/

Bioinformatics Scientist
San Diego County, CA
- Developed algorithms and pipelines for high-throughput sequencing data analysis. - Built MethylSeq analysis tool on Illumina BaseSpace for bisulfite sequencing data processing. - Developed UFlow, a Directed-Acyclic-Graph workflow system that speeds up Illumina bioinformatics workflows by >50X. - Developed a bioinformatics library in GOlang that sped up some analysis by >100X. - Forensics, cancer, whole-genome, exome competitive analyses.

Bioinformatics and Statistical Population Genetics, Research Assistant in Magnus Nordborg Lab
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1. Conditional linear mixed model for GWAS 2. Graph-theory based algorithms 3. Statistical model for pathway enrichment in GWAS hits 4. Parallel computing pipeline and SQL database for processing large genomic data
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