Jing Huang, Ph.D.

Veracyte

Jing Huang received her B.A. in Statistics and Probability from Peking University and her Ph.D.in Statistics and M.S. in Epidemiology from Stanford University. She has been working in the biomedical field for over 20 years and her research interest focuses on statistical methodologies in clinical trial design, genomic analysis, and machine learning. She is currently the SVP of Bioinformatics & Data Science at Veracyte Inc., a molecular diagnostic company, responsible for creating, implementing and executing bioinformatics pipelines, algorithm development, and statistical analyses across all phases of product development. Jing has co-authored more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals with near ten thousand citations and is co-inventor of over 20 patent filings. Jing has been elected as a Fellow of American Statistical Association in 2023 to recognize her outstanding contributions to the medical research community in the field of statistics; for numerous statistical innovations in genomic tests; and for exemplary leadership and community service to the profession. Besides her daily work, she actively promotes data science through many of her volunteer activities: She is the founding president of DahShu, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of promoting research and education in data science. She is currently the chapter representative of American Statistical Association San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (SFASA); and has served the organization for many years in various roles including Past president (term 2016-2017), President (term 2015-2016), President Elect (term 2014-2015) and VP of Biostatistics (term 2013-2014). She was the general co-chair and local organization chair of the Fourteenth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2016) as well as the DahShu 2017 Scientific Symposium on Computational Precision Health (CPH 2017).