Bing-Xing Huo, Ph.D.

Bing-Xing Huo joined the Data Sciences Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in 2022 as a principal investigator and associate director of data strategy and alliances. Her work focuses on bringing cutting-edge machine learning tools and data infrastructural solutions to address current challenges in biomedical research and generate new frontiers of scientific discovery. Huo has been continuously engaged in international collaboratives on open science projects, and is a strong advocate for sustainable data ecosystems. 

In 2023, Huo and the DSP team were awarded a $2.4 million grant as a part of NIH’s BRAIN Initiative. The project will develop novel and user-friendly computational solutions that enable researchers to study different features of single neurons in an integrative fashion, leveraging multiple public data archives in a cloud environment. 

Prior to joining Broad, Huo was a computational science manager at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and previously a research scientist at RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan. Huo received her Ph.D. in neural engineering from Penn State University, and M.S. in biology from New York University. Before embarking on a life science career, Huo pursued her undergraduate study in software engineering at Tsinghua University, and mathematics and physics at the University of Hong Kong. She also holds a master’s degree in economics from Boston University.

Contact Bing-Xing at bhuo@broadinstitute.org.