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]
