Boyang Yu
Faculty Advisor(s): Carlos Fernandez-Granda
Contact: by2026@nyu.edu
Bio: Boyang is a PhD student at the NYU Center for Data Science. Before joining CDS, Boyang majored in probability and statistics at the School of Mathematical Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). She is broadly interested in the intersection of machine learning and healthcare. She has studied the association between body composition and mortality of lung cancer patients with Professor Junwei Lu at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She has also worked on proteomics big data at Guomics, Westlake University. During her previous internship at ByteDance, she also had experience in learning to rank models and graph databases. In her spare time, she enjoys marathons, rock climbing, and cooking.
Awards:
- DeepMind Fellowship