Youting Sun

Youting Sun is a Senior Staff Bioinformatics Scientist at Exact Sciences, focusing on the development and validation of a minimal residual disease oncology assay since May 2023. Previously, Youting was a Staff Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina from October 2016 to May 2023, contributing to bioinformatics pipeline and algorithm development for next-generation sequencing and array data, as well as leading core bioinformatics efforts in product development projects. Prior experience includes roles at Sequenom, Inc. where leadership in evaluating a non-invasive prenatal test resulted in significant cost savings, and contributions to next-generation data analysis. Youting has also held positions at MD Anderson Cancer Center and participated in internships at TGen and Halliburton. Youting holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a BS in Control Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University.