About Yu

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science at the Indiana University School of Medicine; an investigator at the Clem McDonald Center for Biomedical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute; and an adjunct professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. My research focuses on: (1) AI-driven modeling of health outcomes and disease progression, (2) fair machine learning with real-world data (RWD) to advance health equity, (3) multimodal data (e.g., physiological signals, EHRs, medical imaging data) modeling and analysis, and (4) health digital twins.

I completed my postdoctoral training in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida, working with Prof. Dr. Jiang Bian. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in 2022, co-advised by Prof. Dr. Vincent S. Tseng and Prof. Dr. Gary G. Yen. Previously, I earned my bachelor’s degree from National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology.

News

1. Our study, “Temporally Detailed Hypergraph Neural ODE for Type 2 Diabetes Progression Modeling”, in ICLR 2026.
2. Our study, “Identifying Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Subphenotypes via a Graph-based Framework using Electronic Health Records​”, has been accepted for publication in Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research​.
3. I received a Pilot Funding from IU Lab.
4. I will begin as an adjunct professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University on November 1.
5. I received a Catalyst Award from the National Academy of Medicine.
6. Our study, “From Image to Report: Automating Lung Cancer Screening Interpretation and Reporting with Vision-Language Models ,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Biomedical Informatics.