Website

This is a research-oriented personal website created by Rui Xiao. As more methodologies and software are being developed, this website serves as a protal to release new tools, gather feedbacks, and exchange ideas.

Brief Biography

Rui Xiao was born in Anhui province, China, in the winter of 1985. He is the only child to a family of a kind father, a high school teacher, and a strict mother, a physician. As his father became more accomplished in his career as a teacher, the whole family moved to the city of Shanghai, soon after Rui went through middle school. A few years later, he went to Shanghai Jiao Tong University and majored in animal biotechnology. By the time for him to get the Bachelor’s degree in the year 2008, one of his graduate school applications came back with a good news and he finally got in touch with Dr. Arthur Penn, who then provided him the opportunity to join the laboratory and work towards a PhD degree at Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine. In the Spring of 2014, Rui Xiao completed his PhD degree and continued his postdoctoral training at Columbia University.

In 2019, Rui moved to Austin for a Senior Scientist, bioinformatics position at Asuragen. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rui began a Senior Scientist position at MyoKardia, researching cardiovascular disease medication. He then advanced to Principal Scientist in the same research field as the company merged into Bristol Myers Squibb. In 2022, Rui seized on an exciting opportunity to work at Amazon, applying his researh skill and machine learning expertise on larger scale to generate immediate impact and receive direct feedback from customers.