Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience
Email: lex4001@med.cornell.edu
Research Profile
Dr. Lei Xie is currently a professor in Computer Science at Hunter College, and affiliated with the Ph.D. program of Computer Science, Biochemistry, and Biology at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. His research focuses on developing new methods in machine learning, informatics, systems biology, and biophysics for multi-scale modeling of drug actions and causal genotype-phenotype associations, and applying them to 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 from 2000 to 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry and M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University, and B.S. in Polymer Physics from University of Science and Technology of China.