Ning Yu

Ning Yu serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences within the School of Arts & Science at State University of New York Brockport. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia State University and joined SUNY Brockport in 2017 after serving as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

• Georgia State University, Computer Science, Ph.D.
• Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Computer Science, M.S.

Dr. Yu's research spans artificial intelligence, network and information security, big data analytics, deep learning, and cloud computing with significant applications in bioinformatics. His work demonstrates a clear progression from foundational AI and security research toward specialized applications in healthcare and energy systems. The most recent publications show increased focus on graph-based deep learning approaches for biomedical problems, particularly in cancer genomics and drug response prediction.

His scholarly impact includes over 40 publications in prestigious venues including ACM/IEEE Transactions, BMC, PLoS, and Information Sciences. The publication trend reveals consistent output with increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary applications, particularly at the intersection of AI and biomedical research.

• Teacher of The Year, School of Science and Art, SUNY Brockport 2022-2023
• Influential Professor 2022, SUNY Brockport, Fall 2023
• Provost Post-Tenure Scholarship Award, $3,500, SUNY Brockport, Spring 2024
• Google Research Credits Grants (2018, 2020-2021)
• WORLDWIDE TOP 10 FINALISTS, IBM 2017 Watson Analytics Global Competition

As an educator, Dr. Yu has mentored numerous undergraduate researchers who have presented at national conferences including NCUR and SURC. He founded SUNY Brockport's first ACM SIGAI Student Chapter and has secured significant funding including a multi-campus SUNY IITG grant for AI education development. His research group actively recruits students for projects involving cloud development (Azure/GCP/AWS), CI/CD, Docker/K8s, and software architecture. Prior to academia, Dr. Yu accumulated 10 years of professional experience in software development and system networking with certifications from Cisco, Microsoft, and Google.