Lequan Yu

I am an assistant professor at The University of Hong Kong. My research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare. I am dedicated to designing advanced machine learning algorithms for biomedical data analysis, with a primary focus on medical images. Specifically, we focus on: 1) developing multi-modal learning algorithms to intergrate multi-scale heterogeneous biomedical data for disease prevention, diagnosis, and prognosis; 2) building real-world learning systems to learn reliable, generalizable, and fair representations from imperfect medical data; and 3) developing causality-based learning algorithms to improve its interpretability for healthcare problems.

Before joining HKU, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, working with Prof. Lei Xing. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in CSE, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in July 2019 and the B.Eng degree in CS, Zhejiang University in 2015.

Research interests:

• Medical Image Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Computer Vision
• AI in healthcare

Honors & Awards

• the World's First List of Top 150 Chinese Young Scholars in Artificial Intelligence, 2022
• IEEE TMI Distinguished Reviewer Silver Level, 2021
• CUHK Young Scholars Thesis Award 2019
• Young Scientist Award Short-listed, Hong Kong Institution of Science, 2019
• Teaching Assistant of Merit, 2018
• MedIA-MICCAI'17 Best Paper Award, 2017
• AAAI Scholarship, San Fransisco, USA, 2017
• Champion, Optic Disc&Cup Segmentation on Retinal Fundus Images (REFUGE 2018)
• Champion, Whole-Heart and Great Vessel Segmentation (HVSMR 2016)
• Champion, Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection Challenge (ISIC 2016)
• Champion, Prostate MR Image Segmentation 2012 (PROMISE12, until 2018 Jan.)
• National Scholarship in China (1.8%), 2012-2014
• He Zhijun Scholarship (1/300+, Highest Honor in College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University), 2014
• Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Scholarship, 2012-2014
• Meritorious Winner, Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM), Consortium for Mathematics and Its Application, 2014
• The Outstanding Undergraduate Award (Awarded by CCF, 100 undergraduates every year in China), 2014
• Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang University, 2015