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Yanjun Qi

Machine Learning For Computational Biology Deep Learning In Bioinformatics Computational Biology Bioinformatics Data Analysis
University of Virginia Department of Computer Science

About

Yanjun Qi is an Associate professor (tenured) of the University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science since 2013. She was a senior researcher in the Machine Learning Department at NEC Labs American, Princeton, NJ from July 2008 to August 2013. Her research interests are within machine learning, deep learning, and bioinformatics. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in May 2008 and received her Bachelor's degree with highest honors from the Computer Science Department at Tsinghua University, Beijing. She has served as PCs and reviewers for multiple renowned international conferences/ journals and has co-chaired the NIPS “Machine Learning for Computational Biology” workshop. Dr. Qi has received a CAREER award from NSF.

Research Performance Summary

145
Total Papers
17814
Total Citations
53
H-Index
2001-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Video Retrieval with the Informedia Digital Video Library System.

Year: 2001

Citations: 25

Venue: TREC

Latest Recorded Paper

Peacemaker or Troublemaker: How Sycophancy Shapes Multi-Agent Debate

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23055

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
13
2024
10
2023
4
2022
5
2021
13
2020
11
2019
1
2018
9
2017
11
2016
13
2015
7

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 67
Journal 7
Book 2

Top Coauthors

Wang Sekhon

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 13
Citations 39
Avg. Citations / Paper 3
H-Index 4

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 43
Citations 3506
Avg. Citations / Paper 81.5
H-Index 18

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 41
Citations 9345
Avg. Citations / Paper 227.9
H-Index 23

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 30
Citations 2726
Avg. Citations / Paper 90.9
H-Index 18

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 13
Citations 1862
Avg. Citations / Paper 143.2
H-Index 12

2000-2004

Period Stats
Papers 5
Citations 336
Avg. Citations / Paper 67.2
H-Index 5

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

yanjun@virginia.edu

Detected Research Keywords

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