Kun-Hsing Yu

Kun-Hsing "Kun" Yu received his PhD in Biomedical Informatics and PhD Minor in Computer Science from Stanford University, and he obtained his MD from National Taiwan University, Taiwan. His research focuses on the integration of quantitative histopathology image patterns with multi-omics (genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) profiles to advance cancer research and clinical practice. His team has developed fully-automated algorithms to analyze whole-slide histopathology images at scale, discovered the molecular mechanisms underpinning the microscopic phenotypes of tumor cells, and identified novel cellular morphologies for patient prognosis. His research interests include quantitative pathology, machine learning, and translational bioinformatics.

DBMI Research Areas

• Artificial Intelligence
• Clinical Decision Making
• Computational Omics

Companies

• Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School (2020)
• Instructor Harvard Medical School (2018 — 2019)
• Harvard Data Science Fellow Harvard Medical School (2017 — 2019)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harvard Medical School (2016 — 2019)
• Research Assistant Stanford University (2012 — 2016)
• Medical Officer Republic of China Army (2011 — 2012)
• Research Assistant Academia Sinica (2009 — 2011)
• Intern National Taiwan University Hospital (2010 — 2011)
• Software Engineer (Intern) OmniWise International, Inc. (2004 — 2004)

Education:

• PhD, Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University (2012-2016)
• PhD Minor, Computer Science, Stanford University (2012-2016)
• MD, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2004-2011)

Selected Awards:

• Google Research Scholar Award (2022)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (2021)
• Blavatnik Center for Computational Biomedicine Award (2020)
• Schlager Family Award for Early Stage Digital Health Innovations (2018)
• Harvard Data Science Fellowship (2017-2019)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Fellowship (2015-2016)
• Winston Chen Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2012-2016)
• Best Intern Award, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan (2011)
• Presidential Award, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2005, 2008-2011)