Yan Luo (罗颜)
Tenure-track Assistant Professor
City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan)
Email: luo.yan[AT]my.cityu.edu.hk
Office: To be confirmed
Recent News
- Feb 02, 2026: One paper is published in Nature Communications.
- May 30, 2025: One paper is published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
- Nov 18, 2024: One paper is published in Nature Human Behaviour.
- Feb 19, 2024: One paper is published in Ageing Research Reviews.
- May 30, 2025: One paper is published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
- Feb 28, 2023: One paper is published in Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle.
- Jul 22, 2022: One paper is published in Journal of Global Health.
- Mar 15, 2022: One paper is published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.
- Mar 01, 2022: One paper is published in Journal of Affective Disorders.
- Sep 01, 2021: One paper is published in Chinese Journal of Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases.
- May 01, 2021: One paper is published in Journal of Jilin University (Medicine Edition).
About Me
Yan Luo is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan). His research lies at the intersection of data science and epidemiology, with a focus on leveraging large-scale biobanks, cross-national aging cohorts, and real-world electronic health records to address population health challenges. He is particularly interested in developing AI-driven multiomics models for personalized disease risk prediction, uncovering the multi-dimensional determinants of healthy longevity, and characterizing the dynamic trajectories of aging.
He received his PhD in Data Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2026 under the supervision of Prof Qingpeng Zhang, MSc in Epidemiology and Health Statistics from Peking University in 2022 under the supervision of Prof Beibei Xu, and BM in Preventive Medicine from Peking University in 2020.
Research Interests
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
- Social determinants of health
- Multiomics analysis
- Healthy aging
Honors & Awards
- IAFOR Scholarship Recipient, The International Academic Forum, 2024
- Award for Academic Excellence, Peking University, 2019-2020
- Award for Contribution in Student Organizations, Peking University, 2018-2019
- The Chugai Scholarship for Excellent Medical Students, Peking University, 2018-2019
- Award for Contribution in Student Organizations, Peking University, 2017-2018
- The Second Prize Scholarship for Excellent Medical Students (The Eisai [China] Pharmaceutical Scholarship), Peking University, 2017-2018