Dawei Lin

Dr. Lin joined DAIT/NIAID/NIH as a Senior Advisor for Bioinformatics in February 2013. Prior to coming to NIH, Dr. Lin was the founding Director of the Bioinformatics Core at the University of California Davis Genome Center for 7 years, and before that, he was in charge of the Computational Biology group of Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics at University of Georgia for 4 years, and spent 5 years at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York where he played a key role in the modernization and operation of the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Dr. Lin received his Master of Science, Quantum Chemistry, at Jilin University, Changchun, China in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Computational Biology at Peking University, Beijing, China in 1996. Dr. Lin is widely recognized for his contributions to various “Big Data” initiatives and we anticipate that his expertise in complex data analysis, Bioinformatics, and high performance computational infrastructure planning will be assets to the Institute as he assumes responsibility for directing, and leading the bioinformatics activities within DAIT.