Yang Du has been working in the field of bioinformatics since 2010. Yang started as a wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter at Leibniz-Institut für Nutztierbiologie in 2010 and then became a Wissenschaftler at Institut für Biostatistik und Informatik in Medizin und Alternsforschung in 2014. In 2015, they joined Annoroad Genomics as CIO and Clinical Bioinformatics Director.
Yang Du obtained a Bachelor degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Fudan University in 2005. Yang then went on to pursue a Master degree in Statistics and Data Mining from Linköping University from 2008 to 2010. Finally, Yang Du completed their Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Bioinformatics from Universität Rostock in 2014.