Yunan
Luo

General Information

Email:
yunan@gatech.edu
Phone:
404-894-6040
Location - Building:
Coda
Location - Room:
S1245
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
School of Computational Science and Engineering

Details

Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
Ph.D.
Subject
Computer Science
Year
2021
Institution
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location
Champaign, IL, USA
Degree Type
B.Eng
Subject
Computer Science
Year
2016
Institution
Tsinghua University
Location
Beijing, China
Statement of Research Interests:

Dr. Luo is broadly interested in computational biology and machine learning, with a focus on developing AI methods to reveal core scientific insights into biology and medicine.

Statement of Teaching Interests:

Dr. Luo teaches fundamental topics and applications at the intersection of computational biology and AI. His teaching philosophy centers on engaging, challenging, and inspiring students. 

Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:

1. Li, Ziang, and Yunan Luo. "Generalizable and scalable protein stability prediction with rewired protein generative models." Nature Communications (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67609-4

2. Luo, Jiaqi, and Yunan Luo. "Learning maximally spanning representations improves protein function annotation." In International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), pp. 420-423. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025.

3. Ding, Kerr, Michael Chin, Yunlong Zhao, Wei Huang, Binh Khanh Mai, Huanan Wang, Peng Liu, Yang Yang, and Yunan Luo. "Machine learning-guided co-optimization of fitness and diversity facilitates combinatorial library design in enzyme engineering." Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (2024): 6392. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50698-y

4. Luo, Yunan, Yang Liu, and Jian Peng. "Calibrated geometric deep learning improves kinase–drug binding predictions." Nature Machine Intelligence 5.12 (2023): 1390-1401. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00751-0

5. Yu, Tianhao, Haiyang Cui, Jianan Canal Li, Yunan Luo, Guangde Jiang, and Huimin Zhao. "Enzyme function prediction using contrastive learning." Science 379, no. 6639 (2023): 1358-1363. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf2465