YU CAO, COMPUTER SCIENCE, UMASS CENTER FOR DIGITAL HEALTH, COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS LAB  Associate Professor; Executive Director, Co-director; Director

Yu Cao

Professor; Director, UMass Center for Digital Health (CDH)

College
Kennedy College of Sciences
Department
Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences
Phone
978-934-3628
Fax
978-934-3551
Office
Dandeneau Hall, Room 319

Expertise

Medical Imaging, Multimodal Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health

Research Interests

Yu Cao, Ph.D., has research interests spanning a variety of aspects of knowledge including complex data, which include the areas of Medical Imaging, Multimodal Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health. Cao has over 150 peer-reviewed publications appeared in various prestigious journals, book chapters and refereed conference proceedings in his field of endeavor with more than 8,000 global citations, including top conferences such as IEEE CVPR, IJCAI, ICLR, ACM MM, IEEE ICME, MICCAI and top journals such as IEEE TNNLS, TBME, TPAMI, TSC and JBHI. His research has been supported by dozens of NSF/NIH/Industry sponsored grants totaling $10 million. He has served/is serving on Organizing Committees or Programming Committees of more than 30 international conferences and workshops. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of ACM, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE).

Education

  • Visiting Fellow: Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 2007 
  • Ph.D.: Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2007 
  • M.S.: Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2005 
  • M.Eng.: Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R.China, 2000 
  • B.Eng.: Computer Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, P.R.China, 1997

Biosketch

Yu Cao, Ph.D., is a tenured full professor at the Miner School of Computer & Information Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is also serving as director for the UMass Center for Digital Health. He was a faculty at The University of Tennessee from 2010 to 2013. He was faculty at California State University from 2007 to 2010. Prior to that, he was a visiting fellow of Biomedical Engineering at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Iowa State University in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He received the M.Eng. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) in 2000, the B.Eng. degree from Harbin Engineering University (China) in 1997, all in Computer Science.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • Best Paper Awards from ACM/IEEE CHASE (2023), IEEE IJCNN (2020), IEEE NAS (2015)
  • Most downloaded paper from Smart Health Journal, by Elsevier (2017-2018) 
  • Having the Highest Number of Peer-reviewed Publications and Creative Works Among Faculty Members in the College of Sciences (2017-2018) 
  • Senior Member, IEEE (Since 2013)