Ziyue (Julius) Yu

Ziyue (Julius) Yu
Division of Industrial Data Science
School of Data Science
Lingnan University
Email: csziyueyu at gmail.com
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I am a postdoctoral researcher at Lingnan University working with Prof. Dian Zhang. I received the PhD in Computer Applied Technology at Macao Polytechnic University (MPU), jointly advised by Prof. Giovanni Pau from University of Bologna / University of California, Los Angeles, and Dr. Wuman Luo from MPU.
My research interests are Medical AI and Interpretable Healthcare Analytics.

News

[June 2025] Our paper “PSformer: Periodic-aware Semantic Transformer for Traffic Prediction” has been accepted to IEEE SMC.
[December 2024] Our paper “Multi-perspective Patient Representation Learning for Disease Prediction on Electronic Health Records” has been accepted to KAIS.
[August 2024] Our paper “A Survey on Personalized Document-level Sentiment Analysis” has been accepted to Neurocomputing.
[September 2023] Our paper “MPRE: Multi-perspective Patient Representation Extractor for Disease Prediction” has been accepted to IEEE ICDM and selected as the best-ranked paper.
[December 2022] Our paper “DMNet: A Personalized Risk Assessment Framework for Elderly People with Type 2 Diabetes” has been accepted to IEEE JBHI and selected as the medical informatics cover paper.

A Survey on Personalized Document-level Sentiment Analysis
Wenhao Zhu, Jiayue Qiu, Ziyue Yu, Wuman Luo.
Neurocomputing, 2024. [SCIE JCR Q1]
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Multi-Perspective Patient Representation Learning for Disease Prediction on Electronic Health Records
Ziyue Yu, Jiayi Wang, Wuman Luo, Rita Tse, Giovanni Pau.
Knowledge and Information Systems, 2024. [CCF B, SCIE JCR Q2]
(extended version of ICDM23)
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MPRE: Multi-perspective Patient Representation Extractor for Disease Prediction
Ziyue Yu, Jiayi Wang, Wuman Luo, Rita Tse, Giovanni Pau.
23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2023. [CORE A*, CCF B]
(Best-rank Paper)
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DMNet: A Personalized Risk Assessment Framework for Elderly People with Type 2 Diabetes
Ziyue Yu, Wuman Luo, Rita Tse, Giovanni Pau.
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2023. [CORE A*, SCIE JCR Q1]
(Medical Informatics Cover Paper)
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Deep Learning Hybrid Models for COVID-19 Prediction
Ziyue Yu, Lihua He, Wuman Luo, Rita Tse, Giovanni Pau.
Journal of Global Information Management, 2022. [SSCI JCR Q1]
(extended version of IoTBDS21)
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Deep Learning for COVID-19 Prediction based on Blood Test
Ziyue Yu, Lihua He, Wuman Luo, Rita Tse, Giovanni Pau.
6th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS), 2021. [CORE C]
(Best Student Paper Award)
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Machine Learning on Graph, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, 2022
Graph Representation Learning, School of Medical Technology and Information Engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 2021
How to Give an Effective Presentation, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, 2021
Deep Learning on Graph, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences & State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, 2021

I regularly serve as a program committee member / reviewer for the following conferences and journals.

Program Committee Member / Conference Reviewer: ICDCS, ICLR, KDD, AAAI, ICDM, ECML-PKDD, IJCNN, CHIL, SMC
Journal Reviewer: npj Digital Medicine, Information Fusion, Information Processing and Management, Knowledge and Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, Neurocomputing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems with Applications, Scientific Reports