Kevin Yuk-Lap Yip

B.Eng., M.Phil. (HKU), M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)

Professor
Director, Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Distinguished Chair
Associate Director of Training and Education, NCI-designated Cancer Center
Scientific Director, Bioinformatics Shared Resources
Member, Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program
Member, Center for Neurologic Diseases
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Email: kyipsbpdiscovery.org
Office: (858)795-5102

• 2014-now: Member, International Society for Computational Biology
• 2014-2022: Consultant, The Asia Diabets Foundation Limited
• 2020-2021: Member, Data Advisory Committee, Hong Kong Genome Project

• 2024 Educator of the Year Award, Graduate School, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
• 2022 Faculty Member of the Year Award, Faculty Opinions
• 2022 Educator of the Year Award, Graduate School, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
• 2019 Outstanding Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2019 Young Researcher Award, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2019 Exemplary Service Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2017 Top-10 papers reading list in 2016-17, RECOMB/ISCB Regulatory Systems Genomics
• 2017 Exemplary Service Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2015 Exemplary Service Award, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Bioinformatics Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Gerstein lab, Yale University
• Semantic web research group, Yale Center for Medical Informatics (YCMI)
• Database research group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong

• ENCODE: Encyclopedia of DNA Elements
• modENCODE: Model organism ENCODE
• TRANSCEND: Trans-Omics Analysis of Complications and Endpoints in Diabetes
• EpiHK: Hong Kong Epigenomics Project
• IHEC: International Human Epigenome Consortium

• BMC Bioinformatics (Associate Editor: 2020-now)
• Frontiers in Genetics (Topic Editor: 2021-2022)
• Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) (Editorial Board Member: 2012-2020)

• Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute on Genetic Variation and Genome Architecture in Development, Health and Disease 2018
• The 21st Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2017

• The 25th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2026
• The 17th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2026 [Area Chair]
• RECOMB Regulatory & Systems Genomics Satellite Meeting (RECOMB-RSG) 2026
• The 30th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2026
• The 16th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2025 [Area Chair]
• The 24th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2025
• The 29th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2025
• The 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024 [Senior Area Chair]
• The 16th Annual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics 2024
• The 23nd International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2024
• The 28th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2024
• The 15th Annual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics 2023
• The 14th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2023
• The 22nd International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2023
• The 13th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2022
• The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) 2022
• The 21st International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2022
• The 14th Annual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics 2022
• The 12th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2021
• The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) 2021
• The 20th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2021
• The 11th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2020
• The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) 2020
• The 19th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2020
• The 13th Annual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics 2020
• The 10th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2019
• The 18th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2019
• The 17th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2018
• The 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2018
• The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2017
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2016
• The 27th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW) 2016
• Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Conference 2016
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2015
• Genome Informatics Workshop/International Conference on Bioinformatics (GIW/InCoB) Joint Conference 2015
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2014
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2013
• ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2013
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2012
• ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2012 (Received Outstanding Reviewer Award)
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2011
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2010
• The 1st Workshop on Management and Mining of Uncertain Data (MOUND) 2009
• The 1st Workshop on Data Mining of Uncertain Data (DUNE) 2007

• Annals of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
• Bioinformatics
• BMC Bioinformatics
• BMC Biology
• BMC Genomics
• BMC Medicine
• BioSystems
• Briefing in Bioinformatics
• Cancer Medicine
• Cancers
• Communications Biology
• Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
• Computers in Biology and Medicine (CBM)
• Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE)
• Diabetologia
• Discrete Applied Mathematics
• eLife
• Evolutionary Bioinformatics
• Genome Biology
• Genome Biology and Evolution
• Genome Medicine
• Genome Research
• IBM Journal of Research and Development
• IEEE Access
• IEEE Transactions on Big Data
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (SMC-B)
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology (TCBB)
• Information Processing Letters
• Information Sciences
• International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA)
• International Journal of Computers and Applications
• International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB)
• Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB)
• Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) (Received Outstanding Reviewer Award in 2015)
• Journal of Hepatology
• Journal of Human Genetics
• Journal of Molecular Biology (JMB)
• Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
• Journal of Theoretical Biology
• Journal of Virological Methods
• Nature Communications
• Nature Computational Science
• Nature Machine Intelligence
• Nature Methods
• Nature Protocols
• Nucleic Acids Research
• Oncotarget
• Patterns
• PeerJ Computer Science
• PLOS Computational Biology
• PLOS Genetics
• PLOS ONE
• Science
• Science Advances
• Scientific Reports
• Source Code for Biology and Medicine

• IBM Certified Systems Expert
• Oracle Certified Professional
• Sun Microsystems Java Certified Programmer