Christina Yau, PhD  is a bioinformatician with extensive experience in analyzing high dimensional  biological data, such as gene expression and inferred pathway activity data,  to address important questions in translational cancer research.  She actively participated in the Cancer  Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network efforts to comprehensively characterize  the molecular portraits of human cancers.   She is currently an Assistant Professor at the UCSF Comprehensive  Cancer Center and is a member of the I-SPY 2 Data Access and Publication  Committee and Biomarker Working Group.