San Francisco Bay Area
Chapter of the American Statistical Association Monthly Seminar Series
Title Enable
Precision Data for Precision Medicine
Presenter
Dr. Jun Ye, President and CEO of Sentieon
Time
Oct. 10th, 2016, 4:30 - 6pm
(4:30-5pm networking, 5-6pm presentation)
Location
3200 Lakeside Drive, Santa Clara, CA
95054 (Free Parking)
Note: Abbott (meeting venue) does
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conference room—so please complete the
registration before Oct. 6th.
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Sentieon (www.sentieon.com), incorporated in July 2014,
develops and supplies a suite of bioinformatics secondary analysis tools that
process genomics data with high computing efficiency, fast turnaround time, exceptional
accuracy, and 100% consistency. Current released products include Sentieon DNAseq, a germline DNA pipeline, and Sentieon
TNseq, for tumor-normal somatic variant detection. The
Sentieon tools are easily scalable, easily
deployable, easily upgradable, software-only solutions. The Sentieon
tools achieve their efficiency and consistency through
optimized computing algorithm design and enterprise-strength software
implementation, and achieve high accuracy using the industryŐs most
validated mathematics models. Sentieon products have
won multiple awards at precision FDA challenges, and are currently at first
place on ICGC-TCGA DREAM Mutation Calling challenge leaderboard. We strive to
enable precision genomics data for precision medicine.
Bio of Speaker
Jun Ye is
co-founder, president, and CEO of Sentieon, a
bioinformatics company established in July 2014. Prior to Sentieon,
Ye was co-founder, president, and CEO of Founton Technologies, a company that specialized in datamining, which is now part of Alibaba
Group. Prior to Founton, Ye was
co-founder, president, and CTO of Brion Technologies,
a company specializing in computational lithography for semiconductor
manufacturing, now part of ASML. Prior to Brion, he
was director of engineering at Onetta, an optical
telecom company, working on communication system control. He also served as
director of engineering at KLA-Tencor, where he worked on the software and
algorithm for mask inspection. From 2001 to 2015, Ye
also served as a consulting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford
University, where he mentored and supervised graduate student research in
microlithography and other areas. Ye earned BSEE from Fudan
University in 1987, MS-Physics from Iowa State University in 1991, and Ph.D. EE
from Stanford University in 1996. During his career, he has authored or
co-authored more than 50 U.S. patents covering algorithm, software, hardware,
and system architecture. In 2014 he received the ISU John V. Atanasoff Discovery Award for his work to advance scientific
knowledge.