Prof. Tianwei Yu is an Associate Dean and Professor at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen since March 2020. Prof. Tianwei Yu graduated at the Biology Department of Tsinghua University in 1997, obtained his master’s degree of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in 2000 at Tsinghua University and another master’s degree of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in 2004 at University of California, Los Angeles, then earned his Ph.D. of statistics at University of California, Los Angeles in 2005. From 2006 till Feb 2020, Yu taught in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University. He was a tenured professor before leaving the post to join CUHK-Shenzhen. Yu’s research is focused on bioinformatics, statistics and machine learning. He is interested in applications in metabolomics, pharmacogenomics, and systems biology. In his collaborative research, he works on environmental health, virology/vaccinology, nutrition, and cancer.

Prof. Tianwei Yu is an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, and Biology. He was former Associate Editor for Current Metabolomics and Systems Biology, and Frontiers in Genetics (Bioinformatics section). In 2021, he won the second prize (participation) for China‘s Ministry of Education Prize for Excellent Achievement in Scientific Research. The students he directed have won David P. Byar Young Investigator Travel Award and ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award.