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 !
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Yimin Fan
Faan, Ngai Man
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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
| AI4S | Learning Meaningful Representation of Single-Neuron Morphology via Large-scale Pre-training
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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) |
| AI4S | Progress and Opportunities of Foundation Models in Bioinformatics
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Qing Li, Zhihang Hu, Yixuan Wang, Lei Li, Yimin Fan, Irwin King, Le Song, Yu Li Preprint |
| AI4S | GFETM: Genome Foundation-based Embedded Topic Model for scATAC-seq Modeling
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Yimin Fan, Yu Li, Jun Ding and Yue Li The 28th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB-24) |
| LLM | Evaluating Neuron Interpretation Methods of NLP Models (pdf)
Yimin Fan, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani and Hassan Sajjad NeurIPS 2023 |
| LLM | 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 |
| LLM | Revisiting Language Models as Knowledge Resource(pdf)
Yimin Fan, Nan Duan, Houqiang Li and Ming Zhou Preprint |
| Others | 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) |
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GFETM: Genome Foundation-based Embedded Topic Model for scATAC-seq Modeling
- RECOMB 2024 (Oral) |
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Evaluating Neuron Interpretation Methods of NLP Models
- International Doctoral Forum 2023 - NeurIPS 2023 (Poster) |
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Discovering Representation Sprachbund For Multilingual Pre-Training
- Findings of EMNLP 2021 (Virtual) [Video] |
Education
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong Ph.D student in Computer Science Aug 2023 - , Hong Kong SAR, China Advisor: Prof.Yu Li |
| University of Science and Technology of China Master student in Electrical Engineering Sep 2021 - May 2023, Hefei, Anhui, China Voluntary withdrawn |
| University of Science and Technology of China Bachelor in Artificial Intelligence and Information Security Sep 2017 - June 2021, Hefei, Anhui, China Advisor: Prof. Nan Duan and Prof. Houqiang Li |
Experiences
| Visiting Student, BioMap, Sept. 2023 - |
| Visiting Student, AI for Science team, Shanghai AI Lab, May. 2023 - Sept. 2023 |
| Research Assistant, McGill University, Sept. 2022 - May. 2023 |
| Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, Natural Language Computing Group, Sept. 2020 - Mar. 2022 |
| Research and Development Intern (Remote), Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) , Mar 2022 - Mar 2023 |
| Research Assistant, Linke Lab, University of Science and Technology of China, Nov.2019— Mar.2020 |
Professional Activities
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Journal/Conference Review: Program Chair, EMNLP 2022 Program Chair, EMNLP 2021 |
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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 |
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Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Blockchain Technologies and Applications 2023@CUHK Numerical Methods B 2019 @USTC Signals and Systems 2020 @USTC |
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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) |
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Summer Schools / Workshops / Exchange Programs: ByteCamp 2022, Bytedance, 2022 Sakura Science exchange program, Cathay Tri-Tech.,inc. 2019 |