Yu Li (李煜)Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Office: Rm 106, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, CUHK
Email: liyuATcse.cuhk.edu.hk, liyu4017ATgmail.com, yu.liATkaust.edu.sa
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Opening: I am now looking for motivated (remote) summer intern students for Summer 2021 and Research Assistant (RA). If you are interested in and want to collaborate with me, feel free to contact me with your CV. For the previous successful cases, please refer to Mentoring.
Opening: I am now looking for motivated PhD/Mphil students, working on machine learning and healthcare, for 2021Fall. If you are interested, feel free to drop me an email. You are also encouraged to apply through our official website, either regular apply or HKPFS.
Short Bio
Yu joined the CSE department at CUHK in December 2020 as an assistant professor, leading the Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AIH) group.He obtained Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAUST, under the supervision of Prof. Xin Gao, in October 2020 (KAUST news).
He got Master degree in Computer Science at KAUST in December 2016.
He got Bachelor degree (honored) in Biosciences from the BEI Shizhang Elite Class at USTC in 2015.
He was born on April 1st, 1995 in Fengyang, China.
Research interests
I am working at the intersection between machine learning, healthcare and bioinformatics, developing new machine learning methods to resolve the computational problems in biology and healthcare, especially the structured learning problems.My long-term goal is to improve the healthcare system, benefiting society directly by improving people's health and wellness.
[All publications] [Selected publications] [Major works in one slide] [Ph.D. thesis, Defense slides] [Job talk: bilibili, YouTube]
Recent news
- --Jan 2021, HMD-ARG accepted by Microbiome (IF=11.607). Thanks to all the collaborators for their great work!
- --Dec 2020, invited to give a talk in Tencent.
- --Dec 2020, invited to give a talk in CUHK(SZ).
- [Past news]
Recent experiences
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Fall, 2018: Visiting student in Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
Advisor: Le Song -
Summer, 2018: Visiting student in Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Advisor: Zhihua Zhou
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Academic services [Full list]
- Reviewer for Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, et al.
- Serve as PC member periodically for ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, ECCV, et al.
Selected awards [Full list]
- Commencement speaker candidate, the first Chinese candidate in the KAUST history, 2020, KAUST
- Certificate of Honor Rank (5% out of all graduates in 2015 at USTC), 2015, USTC
- National Scholarship, 2013