Professor Yizhou YU, Chair Professor of Computer Science and Associate Director (Research) at CDS, has been awarded the 2024 Research Output Prize at HKU.

The University presents annual awards for research excellence through the Research Output Prize, a faculty-based award that recognises an author (or team of authors) of a single research output item published or created in the previous calendar year.

Professor Yu has been recognised as a co-author of the research titled “A transformer-based representation-learning model with unified processing of multimodal input for clinical diagnostics”. The research was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Professor Yu is renowned for his significant contributions to AI and visual computing, including deep learning, computer vision, image processing, graphics, and VR/AR. His current research endeavours focus on deep learning methods for machine intelligence, biomedical data analysis, computer vision, computational visual media, and geometric computing.
 

His impactful research has earned him numerous accolades, including the 2002 US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2007 NNSF China Overseas Distinguished Young Investigator Award, ACCV 2018 Best Application Paper Award, as well as ACM SCA 2011 and 2005 Best Paper Awards. Furthermore, he is recognised as an IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Member.