Yalin Wang

Professor Yalin Wang is a faculty member in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) at Arizona State University (ASU), where he has held roles since 2010. He was promoted to full Professor in 2023, following his tenure as Associate Professor starting in 2017. His research focuses on medical imaging, computer vision, machine learning, and neuroimaging, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease biomarker discovery and geometric modeling. He leads the Geometric & Scientific Computing Lab (GSL), hosting a research website at http://gsl.lab.asu.edu.

Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering (University of Washington, 2002), MS and BS in Computer Science (Tsinghua University, 1996 and 1994).

Research interests include surface-based morphometry, optimal transport applications in neuroimaging, and deep learning for medical image analysis. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and received the 2016 ASU CIDSE Best Junior Faculty Researcher Award, among other accolades.

His grants include NIH-funded projects on Alzheimer’s biomarkers, retinotopic mapping, and pediatric brain development. Collaborations span institutions like Mayo Clinic and ADNI.

Notable contributions include developing neurodegeneration biomarkers using low-rank/sparse subspace decomposition and predictive models for cognitive decline via hyperbolic stochastic coding.