Dr. Yu Lin, who was born in November 1981, in Changshu, China, passed away in October, 2022 in Canberra ACT, Australia. Our thoughts go out to Yu's friends and family at this difficult time.
Yu was Senior Lecturer, a highly valued member of the School of Computing, and the leader of the Computational Genomics Group, at the Australian National University (ANU). He is an expert in algorithm design and computational biology. Yu was kind, calm, sharp, and adventurous in both intellect and life. He is an excellent researcher and teacher in heart and soul who will be greatly missed.
Biography
Yu studied at the University of Science and Technology of China (BS in Computer Science with University Medal, 2004), MS at Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technolgy (2004-2007, MS in Computer Science advised by Dongbo Bu), and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, PhD 2013, advised by Bernard M.E. Moret) From 2013 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral scholar hosted by Prof. Pavel A. Pevzner at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of California, San Diego. He joined the ANU in 2016.
Dr Yu Lin was a world-class scholar. His research activities tackled the fundamental problems in computational biology, he also made contributions to data mining and machine learning. His most significant contributions include innovative algorithms and practical tools for genome assembly, phylogeny tree reconstruction, computational mass spectrometry, and metagenomic binning and assembly. He published 70+ peer-reviewed papers over his research career (2005 - 2022). Yu’s work was deep, algorithmically innovative, and a number of them have become the standards of the respective fields. He received Early Career Researcher Outstanding Contribution Award from the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society in 2020
A summary of Yu’s research is at the LIFE tab of this site
https://www.forevermissed.com/yulin/lifestoryMay Yu rest in peace.
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林宇,1981年11月出生于江苏常熟,本科毕业于中国科学技术大学,在中国科学院计算技术研究所获得硕士学位(硕士导师:卜东波研究员)。 硕士毕业后,林宇转向海外求学和工作,在瑞士洛桑联邦理工学院(EPFL)Bernard M.E. Moret教授指导下获得计算机科学博士学位,而后在加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)Pavel A. Pevzner教授实验室从事博士后研究。
林宇博士自2016年9月起任教于澳大利亚国立大学,历任讲师,高级讲师。在校工作期间,林宇博士全身心投入教学和科研工作。在担任博士生导师的同时每年向超过400名的本科生、研究生教授《关系型数据库》和《生物信息学》课程。林宇博士心系学生,在提高教学质量与辅导学生学习上倾注了大量心血。其教学质量多次得到学校赞誉,广受学生好评。
林宇博士是一名卓越的世界级学者,他的研究领域主要为计算生物学,并在数据挖掘和机器学习等领域亦有涉猎。林宇擅长算法设计与分析,其多项工作极具原创性,引领了整个领域的发展,影响深远。举例来说,在基因组序列拼接算法方面,他提出了新的ABruijn graph,扩展了常用的de Bruijn graph瓶颈问题。在此基础上用林宇提出repeat graph并研发了目前广受欢迎的Flye基因组拼接软件。在比较基因组学方面,他提出了多种估计进化距离和重构进化树的新算法,并提出了一种全新的测度来计算进化树之间的距离并得到广泛应用。在计算质谱方面,他提出了基于自助取样法验证微生物质谱鉴定置信度的方法,混合菌谱图解析算法,基于深度学习的采集蛋白质组数据解析方法,推断蛋白质质谱规律的framentation event 模型,以及估算氨基酸脱氨/脱水概率的EM算法。在宏基因组学方面,设计和实现了多种分箱/拼接算法(包括MetaCoAG, MetaBCC-LR, GraphBin, GraphBin2, RepBin, and ConDiGA等)并在预测精度和运行效率上都领先于其他方法。林宇在其17年(2005-2022)的科研生涯中发表了70多篇论文,这是他留给世界的财富。
对于他的意外离世,我们与整个澳大利亚国立大学和学术界同僚共同哀悼。林宇博士作为一个杰出的计算生物学家和优秀宽和的同事,一直广受同事和学生赞誉,他将会永远活在我们的心中!
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Note:
This site has been established by and for Yu's friends to honour his memory.
The content of this website will be collated and shared with his family after a while in an appropriate format.
* If you would like to share a memory or tribute with Yu's family but do not wish to post on this site, email it to rip.yulin@gmail.com to be included in the compilation.
* Yu is known to dislike sharing photos publicly. To honour his preferences, please do not post photos directly to this site.
* If you have photographic memories of Yu and would like to share with his family, please email them (with a brief note on time, location and occasion) to rip.yulin@gmail.com. Ones that are approved by his family will appear on this site.
* The gmail contact above and this website is monitored by a small group of Yu's volunteering friends in Canberra and world-wide. Membership and content trails are available upon request.
附:
该网站由宇的朋友们为了纪念他而建立和维护的。本网站的内容后期将收集整理成册给林宇的家人。
如果你想与宇的家人们分享回忆或致敬,但是不想在本网站上发布的,请发送电子邮件至rip.yulin@gmail.com。邮件中的内容也会被收集整理成册并给林宇的家人。
众所周知,林宇不喜欢在公众场合公开分享个人照片。为了尊重他的个人喜好,请不要将照片直接发布到本网站上。如果您有关于宇的回忆照片并想与他的家人分享的,也请发送至电子邮件至rip.yulin@gmail.com,并附上简短的描述(时间,地点,场合等)。经过他家人的同意后可以发布于本网站上。
该邮箱(rip.yulin@gmail.com)是由由一群林宇在各地的朋友们进行维护的。