LI Yu

Li Yu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His departmental profile records that he graduated with first-class honours in biosciences from the Bei Shizhang Elite Class at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2015, took a master's degree in computer science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in 2016 and a Ph.D. in computer science there in 2020, and was the first Chinese commencement student speaker in that university's history. His work sits at the intersection of machine learning, healthcare and bioinformatics. The profile records about seventy papers in top venues such as Nature Biotechnology and Nature Computational Science, and notes that since joining CUHK his group has published four works in Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications and Nature Computational Science with him as corresponding author or co-first author. The profile further records that his work on antibiotic resistance gene detection was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, Class of 2022, that his team won the championship in the CASP15 RNA 3D structure prediction competition in 2022, and that he received the CSE Department Exemplary Teaching Award in 2024.