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Welcome to Huiqi Yvonne Lu's Website

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I am an entrepreneurial engineer and researcher committed to impactful innovations. Welcome to my website, where I share my academic life, research, and professional achievements. This platform highlights my dedication to advancing digital health innovations for everyone, anywhere, alongside my academic contributions at the University of Oxford and my professional service in esteemed organisations.

 

Huiqi is my official first name, pronounced as Hwei ch-ii. Many colleagues and friends call me Yvonne (middle name) or Luqi (nickname since childhood, pronounced as lu ch-ii). 

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In my academic role, I am enjoying my research in AI and swarm intelligence at the Department of Engineering Science, as well as teaching as a College Lecturer in Engineering at Worcester College, University of Oxford. 

 

In professional service, 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. As a senior member of IEEE, a committee member of UK&Ireland EMBS, I actively contribute to the IEEE Standard Committee for P3191: Performance Monitoring of Machine Learning-enabled Medical Devices in Clinical Use. I am an Associate Editor (academic) of Nature npj Women's Health, and a co-editor of a Special Collection of Advances in AI for Women's Health, Reproductive Health, and Maternal Care: Bridging Innovation and Healthcare, and an editorial board member (statistics) of BMJ AI & Digital Health. 

 

Please find my institutional webpage here, my research here, and my academic "revolving-door" journey here.

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About this website

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This is a place where I share my academic life, thoughts, journeys, and curiosity. I hope you find it an interesting place too. ​​

Research Interests

  • Time-series multimodal modelling

  • Federated health foundation models

  • In-network ML and computing infrastructure

  • Physiological and psychological modelling with LLM and human in the loop 

  • Robotics and human interactions

Academic Awards and Prizes

  • Best Lightning Talk Award (Biomed AI and Health Theme), Oxford University AI and Ethics Conference. (2026)

  • Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Gender and Technology. (2025)

  • Runners-up of the NCRM Impact Prize 2023, National Centre for Research Methods. (2023)

  • Bills and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Challenge Project Award for “Large Language Model (LLM) to Build Frontline Healthcare Worker Capacity in Rural India”. (2023)

  • UK national winner of the CAETS High Potential Innovations Prizes, nominated by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. (2021)

  • Public Engagement Champion, Computational Health Informatics Lab, University of Oxford. (2020) 

  • Royal Academy of Engineering Daphne Jackson Trust Career Re-entry Research Fellowship award (2019)

  • National finalist of the SET for Britain, House of Commons, London, UK. (2007)

  • Research Council (UKRI) Overseas Research Studentship (2005) 

  • Honourable Mention Award in the USA International Interdisciplinary Contest in Modelling (MCM / ICM), administered by the USA Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications. (2003)

  • 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.

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