Yankun Xu obtained his bachelor's degree in electronic information engineering from Shanghai Institute of Technology (Shanghai, China). He pursued his master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering of Electrical Engineering Department from Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden). In September 2020, he joined the Center of Excellence in Biomedical Research on Advanced Integrated-on-chips Neurotechnologies (CenBRAIN Neurotech), Westlake University as a Ph.D. candidate. Then, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Westlake University / Zhejiang University in 2024.    

Yankun is interested in applying advanced AI techniques, e.g., Machine/Deep Learning, Signal/Image Processing, to solve biomedical problems, especially on the neurodegenerative diseases. He focuses on epileptic seizure detection and prediction. He has developed several algorithms for improving seizure detection and prediction. Also he has built collaboration with epilepsy center of SAHZU to focus on video-based seizure detection project.

[1] Xu, Y., Wang J., Chen Y., Yang J., Ming W., Wang S. & Sawan M., "VSViG: Real-time Video-based Seizure Detection via Skeleton-based Spatiotemporal ViG ", ECCV, 2024.

[2] Xu, Y., Yang, J., Ming, W., Wang, S., & Sawan, M., "Shorter latency of real-time epileptic seizure detection via probabilistic prediction", Expert Systems with Applications, 2024.

[3] Xu, Y., Yang, and Sawan, M., "Multichannel Synthetic Preictal EEG Signals to Enhance the Prediction of Epileptic Seizures", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022.