Yan Chak (Richard), Li

I am a Data Science Analyst in Bunyavanich Lab, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. My current focus is applying machine learning techniques on asthma and peanut allergy studies. I am also developing online data visualization for SunBEAm-ABC. I also work with Prof. Pei Wang on data portal for the CPTAC studies.

Previously, I worked as a Bioinformatician under Prof. Gaurav Pandey, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai exploring and analyzing biomedical data by machine learning techniques, i.e. heterogeneous ensemble on multimodal data (Ensemble Integration, eipy), etc. Also I developed several online application for sharing and visualizing biomedical data (POND, KiNet, SunBEAm-ABC web portal).

Before that, I received my in B.Eng. in Computer Engineering in 2017 and M.Phil. in Bioengineering in 2019, both are from HKUST. His undergraduate study combined Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Electronic Engineering. He joined Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) under supervision of Prof. Henry H. N. Lam in 2017 Summer. My master thesis project was building an automatic vertebral edge detection method via Deep Learning under supervision of Prof. Richard H.Y. So.

Research Interest

• Machine Learning
• Data Visualization/Web Application
• Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
• Computer Vision & Medical Image Analysis

Other than research

• Bowling, Cycling, Hiking
• (Competitive) Pokemon VGC