Sehi L'Yi
Scholar

Sehi L'Yi

Google Scholar ID: _KASicoAAAAJ
Harvard University
Human-CenteredBiomedical Data Visualization
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,373
 
H-index
21
 
i10-index
35
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
25
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Recipient of the NIH/NHGRI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award ($747,000 funding for future faculty position).
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention (Top 5%) at IEEE VIS 2024.
  • Best Abstract Award (Top 1) at ISMB BioVis 2021.
  • Runner-Up Abstract Award at ISMB BioVis 2025.
  • Publications in high-impact venues including Nature Scientific Reports, Nature EMM, PLOS Computational Biology, Oxford Bioinformatics, TVCG, CHI, and IEEE VIS.
  • Work featured in a Nature Technology Feature highlighting Gosling as a powerful grammar for genome data visualization.
Background
  • Currently an NIH K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow in Informatics at Harvard University, working with Nils Gehlenborg.
  • An interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of data visualization, human–computer interaction, and biomedical informatics.
  • Aims to democratize the creation and use of domain-specific data visualizations.
  • Designs and develops interactive data systems that scale to diverse user needs in biomedical domains.
  • Developed a domain-specific language (DSL) enabling scalable, interactive genomics visualization and integration with AI methods.