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 models and algorithms for genome assembly, metagenomics, comparative genomics 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 received the Early Career Researcher Outstanding Contribution Award from the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society in 2020. He is also the recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, the Director's Award from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Guo Moruo Presidential Award from University of Science and Technology of China.