Associate Professor

E-mail address:ysui@tsinghua.edu.cn

Introduction

Yanan Sui

Associate Professor

National Engineering Laboratory of Neuromodulation

School of Aerospace Engineering

Tsinghua University


Address: MengMinWei Sci.&Tech. Building, N-623

School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University

Email: ysui@tsinghua.edu.cn

Website: www.yanansui.com

Education background

2006 - 2010, B.E. in Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University

2011 - 2016, Ph.D. in Computation & Neural Systems (Applied & Computational Mathematics), California Institute of Technology

Experience

2021 – Present, Associate Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University

2019 – 2021, Assistant Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University

2018 – 2019, Postdoc Researcher, Computer Science, Stanford University

2016 – 2018, Postdoc Researcher, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology

2010 – 2011, Research Assistant, System Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience, CAS

Academic Service

Area Chair: ICLR, NeurIPS

Editorial Board Member: Journal of Biomedical Engineering (in Chinese)

Program Committee / Reviewer:

AAAI, AISTATS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IJCAI, IROS, NIPS/NeurIPS, UAI

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Machine Learning, Neural Computation

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Neural Engineering, Robotics, AI-Assisted Healthcare

We are working on Artificial Intelligence methods and their applications in clinical therapies and robotic control.

Machine Learning: Optimization methods and reinforcement learning with Safety Constraints, Preference Feedback, and Structured Decision Spaces

Neural Engineering: Neuromodulation for Neurological Disorders

Robotics: Rehabilitation Systems for Patients with Movement Disorders

AI-Assisted Healthcare: AI for better Diagnosis and Treatment, for better Understanding of Human Behavior

Honors and Awards

Best Conference Paper Award, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

Publications

Interactive Video Acquisition and Learning System for Motor Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease

Yunyue Wei, Bingquan Zhu, Chen Hou, Chen Zhang, Yanan Sui

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021

ROIAL: Region of Interest Active Learning for Characterizing Exoskeleton Gait Preference Landscapes

Kejun Li, Maegan Tucker, Erdem Bıyık, Ellen Novoseller, Joel W Burdick, Yanan Sui, Dorsa Sadigh, Yisong Yue, Aaron D. Ames

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021

No-Regret Reinforcement Learning with Heavy-Tailed Rewards

Vincent Zhuang, Yanan Sui

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2021

Deep Brain Stimulation Initiative: Towards Innovative Technology, New Disease Indications, and Approaches to Current and Future Clinical Challenges in Neuromodulation Therapy

Yanan Sui, Tian Ye, Wai Kin Daniel Ko, Zhiyan Wang, Fumin Jia, Andreas Horn, Dirk De Ridder, Ki Sueng Choi, Ausaf A Bari, Shouyan Wang, Clement Hamani, Kenneth Baker, Andre Machado, Tipu Z Aziz, Erich Talamoni Fonoff, Andrea A Kühn, Hagai Bergman, Terence David Sanger, Hesheng Liu, Suzanne Haber, Luming Li

Frontiers in Neurology, 2021

Parkinsonian Chinese Speech Analysis towards Automatic Classification of Parkinson's Disease

Hao Fang, Chen Gong, Chen Zhang, Yanan Sui, Luming Li

Machine Learning for Health, 2020

Chronically monitoring the deep brain rhythms: latest clinical progress

Yue Chen, Yanan Sui, Chen Gong, Bozhi Ma, Hongwei Hao, Luming Li

Science Bulletin, 2020

Safe Reinforcement Learning in Constrained Markov Decision Processes

Akifumi Wachi, Yanan Sui

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020

Dueling Posterior Sampling for Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning

Ellen Novoseller, Yibing Wei, Yanan Sui, Yisong Yue, Joel Burdick

Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2020

Preference-Based Learning for Exoskeleton Gait Optimization

Maegan Tucker, Ellen Novoseller, Claudia Kann, Yanan Sui, Yisong Yue, Joel Burdick, Aaron D. Ames

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

Best Conference Paper Award

Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction

Deepfakes for Medical Video De-Identification: Privacy Protection and Diagnostic Information Preservation

Bingquan Zhu, Hao Fang, Yanan Sui, Luming Li

AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2020

D3TW: Discriminative Differentiable Dynamic Time Warping for Weakly Supervised Action Alignment and Segmentation

Chien-Yi Chang, De-An Huang, Yanan Sui, Li Fei-Fei, Juan Carlos Niebles

In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019

Motor Control after Human SCI through Activation of Muscle Synergies under Spinal Cord Stimulation

Richard Cheng, Yanan Sui, Dimitry Sayenko, Joel Burdick

In IEEE Trans on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2019

Automatic Sleep Stage Classification Based on Subthalamic Local Field Potentials

Yue Chen, Chen Gong, Hongwei Hao, Yi Guo, Shujun Xu, Yuhuan Zhang, Guoping Yin, Xin Cao, Anchao Yang, Fangang Meng, Jingying Ye, Hesheng Liu, Jianguo Zhang, Yanan Sui*, Luming Li* (* corresponding authors)

In IEEE Trans on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2019

On Muscle Activation for Improving Robotic Rehabilitation after Spinal Cord Injury

Richard Cheng, Yanan Sui, Dimitry Sayenko, Joel Burdick

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018

Stagewise Safe Bayesian Optimization with Gaussian Processes

Yanan Sui, Vincent Zhuang, Joel Burdick, Yisong Yue

In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2018

Advancements in Dueling Bandits

Yanan Sui, Masrour Zoghi, Katja Hofmann, Yisong Yue

In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2018

Safe Exploration and Optimization of Constrained MDPs using Gaussian Processes

Akifumi Wachi, Yanan Sui, Yisong Yue, Masahiro Ono

In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018

Quantifying performance of bipedal standing with multi-channel EMG

Yanan Sui, Kun ho Kim, Joel Burdick

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017

Correlational dueling bandits with application to clinical treatment in large decision spaces

Yanan Sui, Yisong Yue, Joel Burdick

In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017

Multi-dueling bandits with dependent arms

Yanan Sui, Vincent Zhuang, Joel Burdick, Yisong Yue

In Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2017

Safe Exploration for Optimization with Gaussian Processes

Yanan Sui, Alkis Gotovos, Joel Burdick, Andreas Krause

In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015

Clinical online recommendation with subgroup rank feedback

Yanan Sui, Joel Burdick

In ACM Conference on Recommender systems (Recsys), 2014

Tonotopic reorganization and spontaneous firing in inferior colliculus during both short and long recovery periods after noise overexposure

Feng Wang, Li Zuo, Bo Hong, Dongyi Han, Ethan M Range, Lingyun Zhao, Yanan Sui, Weiwei Guo and Liangfa Liu

Journal of Biomedical Science 2013, 20:91

Axon position within the corpus callosum determines contralateral cortical projection

Jing Zhou, Yunqing Wen, Liang She, Yanan Sui, Lu Liu, Linda J. Richards, and Mu-ming Poo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 110.29 (2013): E2714-E2723

Forward transport of proteins in the plasma membrane of migrating cerebellar granule cells

Dong Wang, Liang She, Yanan Sui, Xiao-bing Yuan, Yunqing Wen and Mu-ming Poo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 109.51 (2012): E3558-E3567