Yiyang (Steven) Yu
Currently: @mit
Contact: yiyu [at] mit [dot] edu
Location: nyc
About Me
Hi! I'm Steven, an incoming PhD student in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT. I graduated from Columbia University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in Computer Science. I love building cool things, especially in AI and deep learning and their applications in biology.
Previously, I conducted research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center with Dr. Mohammed AlQuraishi and at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory with Dr. Peter Koo.
As a Kaggle Competitions Master, I've participated in numerous AI competitions, ranking in the top 0.07% globally.
In my free time, I love swimming, playing racket sports, making delicious food, and capturing moments through my lens.
My Chinese name is 俞翌阳 and it has the same pronunciation as 鱼一羊, which means "fish, one, sheep". That's why I have this fishy background! 🐟🐑
Recent News
- April 2026 New preprint on D3: DNA Discrete Diffusion for regulatory sequence design published on bioRxiv!
- April 2026 Awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
- March 2026 Committed to the PhD program in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT!
- July 2025 Paper on DNA language models for regulatory genomics published in Genome Biology!
- May 2025 Paper on mechanistic interpretability of protein language models published at ICML!
- March 2025 Got named as a 2025 Goldwater Scholar!
- January 2025 Won 3rd place in the Kaggle Santa 2024 Competition!
Contact Me
Feel free to reach out if you want to collaborate on a project, discuss research, or just chat about the latest in tech and healthcare!
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