Youssef is a bioinformatician with 15 years of experience. As Head of Bioinformatics at a top Japanese genetic testing firm, he led various critical projects, such as a clinical WGS pipeline, co-designing an Asian Ancestry kit, and streamlining and automating their bioinformatics processes. Youssef co-developed iPath3 and Functree2 while a PostDoc at the Yamada Lab (Tokyo Tech). During his PhD at the lab of Jeroen Raes (KU Leuven / VUB), he worked on gut microbiome multi-omics integration, and pioneered biome-specific analysis of meta-omics data through GOmixer, the GMMs and the GBMs.