I am currently pursuing my PhD at The University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof. Lequan Yu. Prior to this, I completed my MPhil degree at Zhejiang University in 2023 and earned my B.Eng degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2020.
My research focuses on the convergence of artificial intelligence and healthcare, where I develop cutting-edge machine learning algorithms for medical applications. Specifically, I specialize in deep learning approaches for computational pathology, aiming to enhance diagnostic capabilities and improve the generalizability of pathology analysis.
Beyond academic research, I am passionate about applying machine learning in competitive settings. As a Kaggle Competitions Master, I have achieved significant success with three gold medals (🥇×3) and two silver medals (🥈×2) in various data science challenges.
📰 News
- 2025.05 🏆 Secured solo Gold Medal in Kaggle's "Drawing with LLMs" Competition!
- 2025.05 🎉 Three papers were early accepted by MICCAI 2025, congrats to my co-authors!
- 2024.09 🎉 Our paper on computational pathology has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)!
- 2024.09 🎉 Our work on pathology foundation model adaptation has been accepted by NeurIPS 2024!
- 2024.08 🎉 Our research on medical imaging has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis (MIA)!
- 2024.08 🎉 Our study in neuropsychopharmacology has been accepted by Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (PNP)!
- 2023.07 🎯 Our work on continual learning for WSI analysis has been accepted by ICCV 2023!
- 2023.07 🎯 Our research on brain age estimation has been accepted by Information Fusion (Impact Factor: 17.56)!
- 2023.05 🏆 Achieved Gold Medal (Ranked 7th out of 1,165 teams) in Google's "Isolated Sign Language Recognition" Competition!
- 2023.02 🎯 Our innovative approach in low-dose CT and low-dose PET image denoising has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis (MIA)!
- 2023.02 🎯 Our research on gait recognition has been accepted by ICASSP 2023!
- 2022.09 🏆 Secured Gold Medal (Ranked 4th out of 1,175 teams) in Kaggle's "Hacking the Human Body" Competition!
Publications

Yanyan Huang, Weiqin Zhao, Yihang Chen, Yu Fu, Lequan Yu.
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

Yanyan Huang, Weiqin Zhao, Yu Fu, Lingting Zhu, and Lequan Yu.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2024

Yanyan Huang, Weiqin Zhao, Shujun Wang, Yu Fu, Yuming Jiang, Lequan Yu.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), poster, 2023

OTFPF: Optimal Transport Based Feature Pyramid Fusion Network for Brain Age Estimation
Yu Fu$^{*}$, Yanyan Huang$^{*}$, Zhe Zhang, Shunjie Dong, Le Xue, Meng Niu, Yunxin Li, Zhiguo Shi, Yalin Wang, Hong Zhang, Mei Tian, Cheng Zhuo.
Information Fusion (IF), 2023

HDNet: Hierarchical Dynamic Network for Gait Recognition using Millimeter-Wave Radar
Yanyan Huang, Yong Wang, Kun Shi, Chaojie Gu, Yu Fu, Cheng Zhuo, Zhiguo Shi.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), poster, 2023

Yu Fu$^{*}$, Yanyan Huang$^{*}$, Meng Niu, Le Xue, Shunjie Dong, Shunlin Guo, Junqiang Lei, Cheng Zhuo.
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), poster, 2022
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Yu Fu, Shunjie Dong, Yanyan Huang, Meng Niu, Chao Ni, Lequan Yu, Kuangyu Shi, Zhijun Yao, Cheng Zhuo
Medical Image Analysis (MIA), 2024
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Sex-dependent nonlinear Granger connectivity patterns of brain aging in healthy population
Yu Fu, Le Xue, Meng Niu, Yuanhang Gao, Yanyan Huang, Hong Zhang, Mei Tian, Cheng Zhuo.
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (PNP), 2024
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Yu Fu, Yanyan Huang, Shunjie Dong, Yalin Wang, Tianbai Yu, Meng Niu and Cheng Zhuo.
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), poster, 2023
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Yu Fu, Shunjie Dong, Meng Niu, Le Xue, Hanning Guo, Yanyan Huang, Yuanfan Xu, Kuangyu Shi, Qianqian Yang, Yiyu Shi, Mei Tian, Cheng Zhuo.
Medical Image Analysis (MIA), 2023
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Yu Fu, Meng Niu, Yuanhang Gao, Shunjie Dong, Yanyan Huang, Zhe Zhang and Cheng Zhuo.
Journal of Neural Engineering (JNE), 2022
Honors and Awards
- 2025.05 Gold Medal (12/1347) in Kaggle “Drawing with LLMs” Competition.
- 2023.05 Gold Medal (7/1165) in Kaggle “Google - Isolated Sign Language Recognition” Competition.
- 2022.09 Gold Medal (4/1175) in Kaggle “Hacking the Human Body” Competition.
- 2022.05 Silver Medal (Top 2%) in Kaggle “HM Recommendation” Competition.
- 2020.06 People’s Scholarship in Harbin Institute of Technology (Four consecutive years).
- 2018.10 National Scholarship in China (1.8%).
- 2018.07 The first prize of the Northeast Division of the “NXP” Cup Smart Car Competition.
- 2018.04 Meritorious Winner, Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM), Consortium for Mathematics and Its Application.
Educations
- 2023.08 - Present, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong.
- 2020.09 - 2023.03, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University.
- 2016.09 - 2020.06, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institite of Technology.
Professional Activities
Journal Reviewers
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
Conference Reviewers
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025
- International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023 CVAMD Workshop