You Wu
Senior Principal ML Scientist Co-Founder at Research Foundation of The City University of New York
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYou Wu is a senior principal ML scientist and co-founder with 11 years of experience building ML-driven drug discovery platforms that prioritize human-relevant outcomes. Based in Shenzhen and affiliated with Northeastern and CUNY research programs, they lead development of PVH, a virtual human simulation engine aimed at accelerating safer, more predictive therapeutics. Their background spans graph neural networks, self-supervised pretraining, transfer learning for noisy multi-omics data, and NLP-GNN hybrids for microbiome-targeted small molecules — work that bridges systems pharmacology and practical drug repurposing. A PhD-trained researcher who has also founded a retail business, they combine deep technical rigor with entrepreneurial instincts and a knack for translating complex academic ideas into product-focused pipelines. An understated through-line in their career is improving out-of-distribution robustness, a practical advantage when moving models from lab data to clinical relevance.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Systems concentrated in Data Analytics, Master's degree, Information Systems concentrated in Data Analytics at Baruch CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chinese, English
Github Skills (79)
parallel10
tqdm10
telegram10
meter10
extensible10
pandas10
argparse10
progress-bar10
eta10
cli10
3d-reconstruction10
jupyter10
console10
utilities10
discord10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aboutyy/poledetection
Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes in 4 months
aboutyy/classification
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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