Rui Yang

Rui Yang is a Senior Manager and Staff Computational Biologist at Freenome, where responsibilities include building a multiomics biomarker discovery platform since January 2019. Previously held positions at Freenome include Manager and Staff Computational Biologist, as well as Manager and Senior Computational Biologist in Assay Development, focusing on lab workflow and bioinformatics pipeline development for a cfDNA assay platform aimed at early cancer detection. Prior experience includes a Development Scientist role at Counsyl, contributing to the development of lab workflows and bioinformatics for genetic testing products, and positions at GenapSys, Inc. that involved workflow simplification for semiconductor DNA sequencing. Rui Yang earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Tsinghua University.