Yu Lin joined the Research School of Computer Science in September 2016. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on computational biology and bioinformatics, and he has been working on algorithms for genome assembly, the analysis of genome rearrangements, and phylogenetic reconstruction.
He received his PhD in Computer Science from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He also holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Chinese Academy of Sciences and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
He has received two awards from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is also the recipient of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, Director's Award from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guo Moruo Presidential Award from University of Science and Technology of China.