News


June 2024
One Paper accepted by ECCB 2024 & Oxford Bioinformatics ! See you in Turku, Finland !

Feb 2024
One Survey paper out on Foundation models in Bioinformatics !

23 December 2023
One Paper accepted by RECOMB 2024 (accepted rate = 16%) ! See you in Boston, USA !

22 Sept 2023
One Paper accepted by NeurIPS 2023 !

1 Aug 2023
Thrilled to start Ph.D journel in AIH group at CUHK !

Yimin Fan 

Faan, Ngai Man
(In Hong Kong Cantonese)
Ph.D student

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Room 904, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, PRC

Email: fanyimin at link.cuhk.edu.hk

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I am a 1st 2nd CS Ph.D student @ CUHK starting Aug 2023, supervised by Prof.Yu Li.

I obtained B.Eng in AI (Elite Stream) and IS in the University of Science and Technology of China. I am affiliated with the School of the Gifted Young, which originates from the first undergraduate program for special young talents in China.

My research interests include Foundation Models for Science (esp. Biology and Healthcare) and Large Language Models (LLM).

I am very grateful for valuable intership experience at Microsoft Research Asia, BioMap Research, Qatar Computing Research Institute, OpenScienceLab and McGill University.

I am humbled to receive a number of awards, including RECOMB 2024 Travel Fellowship, ECCB 2024 ISCB Travel Fellowship and China Undergraduate National Scholarships (2018,2019,2020). Very grateful for the recognition !

If you are interested in my research / interested in AI+BioMed Interdisciplinary research / simply want to chat, feel free to reach out by sending emails !

Papers

AI4S stands for AI for Science. LLM stands for Large Language Model.
* indicates equal contributions
J2&C5 Learning Meaningful Representation of Single-Neuron Morphology via Large-scale Pre-training (pdf)
Yimin Fan*,Yaxuan Li*, Yunhua Zhong, Liang Hong, Lei Li, and Yu Li
23rd European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB-24) (Also appear in Oxford Bioinformatics)
J1 Progress and Opportunities of Foundation Models in Bioinformatics (pdf)
Qing Li, Zhihang Hu, Yixuan Wang, Lei Li, Yimin Fan, Irwin King, Le Song, Yu Li
Briefings in Bioinformatics
C4 GFETM: Genome Foundation-based Embedded Topic Model for scATAC-seq Modeling (pdf)
Yimin Fan, Yu Li, Jun Ding and Yue Li
The 28th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB-24)
C3 Evaluating Neuron Interpretation Methods of NLP Models (pdf)
Yimin Fan, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani and Hassan Sajjad
NeurIPS 2023
C2 Discovering Representation Sprachbund For Multilingual Pre-Training (pdf)
Yimin Fan, Yaobo Liang, Alexandre Muzio, Hany Hassan, Houqiang Li, Ming Zhou, Nan Duan.
Findings of EMNLP 2021
C1 Enhance the performance of navigation: A two-stage machine learning approach(pdf)
Yimin Fan, Zhiyuan Wang, Yuanpeng Lin, Haisheng Tan.
2020 6th International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications (BIGCOM)

Professional Activities

Journal/Conference Review:
Program Chair, EMNLP 2022
Program Chair, EMNLP 2021
Awards:
RECOMB Travel Fellowship, 2024
ECCB 2024 ISCB Travel Fellowship, 2024
National Scholarship in China, 2018,2019,2020
Anhui Province Outstanding Graduate 2021
USTC Outstanding Graduate 2021
Deecamp AI competition by Sinovation Ventures, Third place in the Finance Track 2020
Neural Network Intelligence (NNI) by MSRA, Outstanding Project 2020
Anhui Province Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, First Prize 2019
National Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Second Prize 2019
The fifth national university student entrepreneur training summer camp, Second prize 2019
National University students Mathematics Competition, First prize(Anhui), 2018
Teaching Assistant:
Introduction to Blockchain Technologies and Applications 2023@CUHK
Numerical Methods B 2019 @USTC
Signals and Systems 2020 @USTC
Popular science:
Popular AI science blogger, Xixiaoyao (One of the authors of the most influential Chinese NLP self-media)
Popular science book author, Hanci Liang, Zhehao Li, Yimin Fan. The common practices in the Future: Artificial Intelligence (in Chinese)
(an AI book edited by Beauty of Science for students in elementary schools in Anhui Province in China)
Summer Schools / Workshops / Exchange Programs:
ByteCamp 2022, Bytedance, 2022
Sakura Science exchange program, Cathay Tri-Tech.,inc. 2019