Yinyin Yuan

About Yinyin Yuan

Yinyin, who leads the Institute of Cancer Research’s Computational Pathology and Integrative Genomics team, is a well-known computational pathology researcher and one of the field’s pioneers. She completed her postdoc in cancer bioinformatics, focusing on cancer genomics and omics data analysis, but she entered digital pathology almost by chance. Rather than working with numbers, Yinyin saw the potential of visualizing the tumor landscape’s different cell types, rich morphological features, and diverse spatial patterns. She says, “This inspired me to study tumors as ecosystems using digital pathology by leveraging my computer science training in image analysis and machine learning.”