Yizhou Yin

Yizhou Yin is a Senior Scientist in Research at Visterra Inc., with experience dating back to March 2019. Prior to this role, Yizhou served as a Postdoctoral Associate at the IBBR Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research from December 2017 to March 2019, focusing on bioinformatics and computational design of antibodies under a proposal sponsored by Genentech. Yizhou's extensive research background includes work as a Graduate Student Research Assistant at the University of Maryland from February 2009 to December 2017, where investigations centered on the relationship between genetic variation and phenotype, as well as protein design. This work involved machine learning methods applied to high-throughput biological data, with programming in Perl, Python, R, and MySQL. A summer internship at Genentech in 2016 involved structural modeling for antibody engineering. Yizhou holds a PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics from the University of Maryland, and a B.S. in Biology from Fudan University.