Major Industry Experience

Head of Computational Proteomics (2002-2003) at Myriad Proteomics, Inc. (later renamed to "Prolexys Pharmaceuticals, Inc."), Salt Lake City, UT

• Created and managed a bioinformatics department of 7 staffs (3 PhDs and 4 Masters) on an annual budget of ~1.5million dollars.
• In less than 2 years, led the group to create a terabyte-scale data processing and warehousing system to help company perform knowledge discovery of ~80,000 human protein interactions from 1.5 million yeast 2-hybrid search experiments.
• Led and executed successful collaborations with companies such as Oracle, Spotfire, PubGene and researchers at MIT Whitehead.
• Facilitated company's business model change based on group's bioinformatics discovery of dozens of promising drug candidates in colon cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

Bioinformatics Computer Scientist (1998-2002) Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA

• First year as "senior informatics consultant" for the bioinformatics department.
• Led sequence selections for Affymetrix GeneChip products of human U95, mouse U74, and rat U34, which generated multi-million dollar monthly revenue for the company.
• Influenced corporate IT upgrade of Sun E6k to Sun E10k due to work in high-performance parallel computing.
• Conducted large-scale discovery informatics research in high-throughput EST clustering, complex data model design, datawarehouse design, SNP discovery, gene expression algorithm development, etc.

Staff Supervised

I express my gratitude to the following colleague scientists, engineers, and statisticians from my group, who contributed to the success of various bioinformatics and computational proteomics projects under my supervision at Myriad and have moved on to new exciting opportunities thereafter:

Manjula Alimina (bioinformatics consulting in the San Francisco Bay Area, 2003-), Andrey Sivachenko, Ph.D.(Ariadne Genomics, Inc., 2004-), Hsiao-kun Tu (Medical ProteoScope, Inc, 2004-), Mitsuhiro Kanazawa (Medical ProteoScope, Inc, 2004-), Hisayoshi Zaima, Ph.D. (Hitachi Life Science Group, 2003-), Amit Phansalkar (University of Utah, 2005-), and Xianfeng (Jeff) Chen, Ph.D. (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, 2005-)