Xueqiu Lin

Xueqiu Lin, PhD, serves as Assistant Professor in the Herbold Computational Biology Program within Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center's Public Health Sciences Division, with additional appointments as Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Basic Sciences Division and Member of the Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center (TDS IRC).

Education:

• Postdoctoral training in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Stanford University (2023)
• Visiting student scholar in Bioinformatics, Baylor College of Medicine (2017)
• PhD in Bioinformatics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China (2016)
• BS, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China (2011)

Research Focus: Dr. Lin pioneers computational-experimental integrations using multiplexed CRISPR screening, deep learning, and statistical modeling to decode non-coding genome regulation, with emphasis on enhancer-transcription factor networks, epistatic variant consequences in cancer/autoimmune diseases/aging, and genomic risk prediction frameworks for precision medicine.

Awards:

• STAT Wunderkind 2023 for "shining a light on the general principles of gene expression"

Research Infrastructure: Leads the Lin Lab at Fred Hutch while contributing to the Translational Data Science IRC's mission of advancing data-driven biomedical discovery through cross-divisional collaboration.