Speakers

Dr. Lei Xie is currently a professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences in Northeastern University and an adjunct profession in Computer Science at The City University of New York. He is also Chief Scientific Officer of Dark Matter Therapeutics, Inc.  

His research focuses on developing new methods in artificial intelligence, machine learning, systems biology, and biophysics for multi-scale modeling of drug actions and causal genotype-phenotype associations, and applying them to drug repurposing, drug discovery and precision medicine. 

From 2001 to 2011, he was a principle scientist at San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), research scientist in pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and biotechnology start-up Eidogen. He was trained in Computational Biology and Biophysics as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  He obtained his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from Rutgers University, and B.S. in Polymer Physics from University of Science and Technology of China.