Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, USA
Biography
Yuanyuan Li, Ph.D. is a staff scientist in the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch. Her primary research interest is in bioinformatics, a rapidly growing area where computational, mathematical, and statistical methods are developed and applied to solve complex biological problems. With an exponentially growing amount of genomic, epigenomic and clinical data, it is critical to develop suitable and realistic models as well as efficient algorithms to extract useful information. Machine learning, as a subdiscipline of bioinformatics, has demonstrated its effectiveness in many biological applications
