Overview

Being an astrophysicist by training, Dr. Yawei Hui spent much of his early career in exploring the universe for special celestial objects that emit strong X-rays. With experiences accumulated in computing and analytical modeling, he took a significant turn to focus on designing and implementing HPC/Supercomputing workflow and data management system and algorithms development. Now he is taking on new challenges to apply all his data science expertise to understand biomedical data and develop efficient and powerful systems to accelerate scientific discoveries in childhood diseases.

Education

• PhD, Astrophisics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (2008)
• MS, Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (2015)
• BS, Theoretical Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China (1997)

Professional Experience

Time	Position	PI/Supervisor	Institution
2020-2021	Manager - DevOps	Gang Wu	St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
2019-2020	Bioinformatics Analyst III	Gang Wu	St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
2016-2019	Postmaster Res. Associate	Eric Lingerfelt	The Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2012-2012	Res. Asst. Prof.		University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2008-2012	Postdoc. Res. Associate	David Schultz	The Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2000-2008	Grad. Res. Assistant	Julian Krolik	The Johns Hopkins University
1997-2000	Grad. Res. Assistant	Jinming Dong	Nanjing University