Patrick Yu | University of Washington

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student advised by Professor Su-In Lee at the AIMS Lab of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.

Before my Ph.D. studies, I worked closely with Professor Sanmi Koyejo, Professor William Hwang, and Professor Yiran Chen, as well as graduate students Brando Miranda, Jimmy Guo, and Hsin-Pai Cheng.

I previously received my Bachelor’s degree (with honors) in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May of 2023.

Computational Biology/Bioinformatics: genomics/multi-omics, cancer biology, clinical healthcare
Machine Learning: explainable AI, meta-learning, federated learning, trustworthy machine learning

Integrative Genomic Characterization of Therapeutic Targets for Pancreatic Cancer - oral presentation at the 2021 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference
Pan-Cancer Survival Classification with Clinicopathologic and Targeted Gene Expression Features - oral presentations at the 2021 University of Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium (Outstanding Project Award) and at the 2021 AACR Undergraduate Student Caucus and Poster Competition
LEASGD: an Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Algorithm for Distributed Learning - spotlight talk and poster session at the 2018 NeurIPS Workshop on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning

Faithful Steward Endowed Fellowship in Computer Science & Engineering (2023) - A merit-based research fellowship awarded by the University of Washington.
Bronze Tablet Award (2023) - Awarded to top 3% of the graduating class at the University of Illinois.
Illinois Engineering Outstanding Scholarship (2023)
2022 Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Engineering Scholarship - Awarded to 5 outstanding students in the CS/ECE departments at Illinois
2022-2023 University of Illinois ISUR Scholar
2022 James N. Snyder ICCP Memorial Award - Awarded to 2 students for a strong interest in the development and automation of software
Outstanding Project Award in the 2021 Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS)
Conference Travel Grant Award for the 2021 Sigma Xi Student Research Conference
Illinois Engineering Achievement Award (2021) and Illinois Engineering Visionary Award (2021)