About Me
My name is Huiqi Yvonne Lu. I am a passionate biomedical and machine learning engineer buzzing with ideas and aspire to real-world impact, especially in developing digital health innovations for everyone, anywhere.
Many colleagues and friends call me Yvonne (middle name) or Luqi (nickname since childhood, pronounced as lu ch-ii). Huiqi is my official first name, pronounced as Hwei ch-ii.
In my current role, I served as an academic Faculty Member, Co-chair of the researchers' committee at the Department of Engineering Science, and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering Science at Worcester College, University of Oxford. I also hold an Honorary Research Fellow position at the George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London.
In professional service, I served as an Associate Editor of Nature npj Women's Health, a Chief Editor of a Special Collection of Advances in AI for Women's Health, Reproductive Health, and Maternal Care: Bridging Innovation and Healthcare, and a guest editor of Frontier Signal Processing. I have served as a workshop committee member and junior round table chair at notable conferences, including ICLR (PMLDC), NeurIPs (ML4H), IJCAI(KDHD), and the PHME. I also actively contribute to the IEEE Standard Committee for P3191: Performance Monitoring of Machine Learning-enabled Medical Devices in Clinical Use.
Please find my institutional webpage here, and my academic "revolving-door" journey here.
About this website
This is a playground where I share my academic life, thoughts, journeys, and curiosity. I hope you find it an interesting place too.
Academic Awards and Prizes
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Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Gender and Technology. (2025)
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Runners-up of the NCRM Impact Prize 2023, National Centre for Research Methods. (2023)
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Bills and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Challenge Project Award for “Large Language Model (LLM) to Build Frontline Healthcare Worker Capacity in Rural India”. (2023)
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UK national winner of the CAETS High Potential Innovations Prizes, nominated by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. (2021)
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Public Engagement Champion, Computational Health Informatics Lab, University of Oxford. (2020)
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Royal Academy of Engineering Daphne Jackson Trust Career Re-entry Research Fellowship award (2019)
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National finalist of the SET for Britain, House of Commons, London, UK. (2007)
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Research Council (UKRI) Overseas Research Studentship (2005)
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Honourable Mention Award in the USA International Interdisciplinary Contest in Modelling (MCM / ICM), administered by the USA Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications. (2003)
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First Prize Winner (2002) and Second Prize Winner (2003) of the China National University Student Mathematics Modelling Competition, organized by the Ministry of Education, P.R. China.