Summary
Lequan Yu is an assistant professor and Programme Co-director of the BASc (Applied AI) at The University of Hong Kong, directing the Medical AI Lab where he develops multimodal, real-world and causality-driven machine learning methods for medical imaging and biomedical data. With a PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and postdoctoral training at Stanford, he has translated research into practice through internships at NVIDIA and Siemens Healthineers, focusing on deep learning for clinical decision support. His work emphasizes building generalizable, trustworthy, and fair models that integrate multi-scale data for prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment design. Notably, he pursues foundation-model-style multimodal approaches and causality-aware algorithms to improve interpretability and safety in real clinical settings.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Zhejiang University
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese