Yunfei Hu’s academic homepage

Welcome to Yunfei’s homepage.

I am a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University, Department of Computer Science, advised by Prof. Maizie Zhou. Previously, I finished my internship via NeuroAI Research Intern in summer 2025 at CSHL, advised by Florin Albeanu. In 2018 and 2021, I earned my Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology with majors in Bioinformatis and Computer Science.

Field of interests:

  • Computational biology
  • Spatial Transcriptomic
  • Mechanistic interpretability
  • Graph representation learning
  • NeuroAI

Selected Awards:

  • Edward Ferguson Jr. Graduate Award [2025]
  • VADD Travel Award [2024]
  • Vanderbilt Graduate School Travel Grant [2023, 2024]
  • IEEE BIBM 2021 Travel Award [2021]
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship [2016, 2018-2020]