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Researcher

Yizhou Yu

Yizhou Yu is a computer vision and computer graphics researcher whose work includes image-based modeling, deep saliency models, and clinical diagnostics. He completed a computer science PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000, was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 12 years, and received a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2002. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 2010, became a full professor in 2012, was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2019 for contributions to geometric and image-based modeling, and was named a 2022 ACM Fellow for contributions to computer graphics and computer vision. With Guanbin Li he introduced a multiscale deep saliency model at CVPR in 2015, and he co-authored a Nature Biomedical Engineering paper on a transformer model for clinical diagnostics and received HKU's 2024 Research Output Prize for that research. As of October 2026, he is a chair professor in the HKU School of Computing and Data Science and associate director of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science.

Works
348

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Timeline

  1. 2000

    A Berkeley computer science doctorate

    He receives a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. He also holds a master's degree in applied mathematics and a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Zhejiang University.

  2. 2002

    A CAREER award at Illinois

    He serves first as a tenure-track professor and then as a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 12 years. He receives a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2002.

  3. 2010–2012

    Full professor in Hong Kong

    He joins the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong in 2010 and is promoted to full professor with tenure in 2012.

  4. 2015

    Multiscale saliency at CVPR

    With Guanbin Li, he presents Visual Saliency Based on Multiscale Deep Features at CVPR in 2015. The paper uses multiscale features from convolutional neural networks for visual saliency.

  5. 2019

    An IEEE Fellow

    He becomes an IEEE Fellow in 2019 for contributions to geometric and image-based modeling. Methods from appearance modeling papers in 1998 and 1999 are used in The Matrix and Mission: Impossible 2. A 2004 SIGGRAPH paper presents an editing technique based on gradient field manipulation.

  6. 2022

    A 2022 ACM Fellow

    He is named a 2022 ACM Fellow for contributions to computer graphics and computer vision.

  7. 2023–2024

    Clinical diagnostics with transformers

    In 2023 he co-authors a transformer-based representation-learning model that processes multimodal input in a unified manner, in work accepted by Nature Biomedical Engineering. He receives the 2024 Research Output Prize at HKU for this research.

  8. As of October 2026

    Chair professor at HKU

    As of October 2026, he is associate director of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science and a chair professor at the HKU School of Computing and Data Science.

Sources and credits

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  1. Professor Yu, Yizhou ai.hku.hk. Checked 16 October 2026.
  2. Professor Yu, Yizhou ai.hku.hk. Checked 16 October 2026.
  3. Conferment of Chair Professor Title to Professor Yizhou Yu cs.hku.hk. Checked 16 October 2026.
  4. [1503.08663] Visual Saliency Based on Multiscale Deep Features arxiv.org. Checked 16 October 2026.
  5. CVPR 2015 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 16 October 2026.
  6. Two HKU Engineering Scholars elected IEEE Fellow 2019 lead.hku.hk. Checked 16 October 2026.
  7. Professor Yizhou Yu as ACM Distinguished Member and IEEE Fellow cs.hku.hk. Checked 16 October 2026.
  8. Global computing association names 57 fellows for outstanding contributions that propel technology today eurekalert.org. Checked 16 October 2026.
  9. ACM Fellow of 2022 engg.hku.hk. Checked 16 October 2026.
  10. [2306.00864] A Transformer-based representation-learning model with unified processing of multimodal input for clinical diagnostics arxiv.org. Checked 16 October 2026.
  11. Professor Yizhou YU honoured with 2024 Research Output Prize cds.hku.hk. Checked 16 October 2026.
  12. Yizhou YU - HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science datascience.hku.hk. Checked 16 October 2026.