Yunan Luo

Yunan Luo is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), affiliated with the College of Computing. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2021) and a B.Sc. from Tsinghua University's Yao Class (2016). His research focuses on computational biology and machine learning, with emphasis on AI-driven solutions for biomedical challenges, including protein engineering, drug discovery, and functional genomics.

Education:

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021
• Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science (Yao Class), Tsinghua University, 2016

Research Interests:

• Developing AI methods for computational biology
• Geometric deep learning and generative AI
• Cancer genomics, drug repositioning, and enzyme function prediction
• Protein structure and stability prediction
• Interpretable machine learning models for biomedical applications

Recent Achievements:

• NIH MIRA Award (2023)
• Amazon Research Award (2022)
• Microsoft Azure Grant (2023)
• NSF AI Institute MMLI Seed Grant (2023)

Advising & Grants:

• Recipient of multiple industry and governmental grants
• Teaching courses like Machine Learning with Graphs and Computational Biology
• Leading a lab focused on AI-driven biomedical discovery