Lucence: Chao Xie

Singapore-based precision oncology company Lucence has appointed Chao Xie as chief data scientist to develop advanced analytics of ultrasensitive liquid biopsy diagnostics for cancer. Xie previously served as head of data science at AirAsia. He won a US Defense Threat Reduction Agency $1M global competition in 2013 for designing an algorithm to rapidly and accurately identify dangerous viruses and bacteria in gene sequencing data.