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Chenyu You is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics and the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, where he is a core faculty member of the CVLab and the AI Institute and is affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS). His research studies fundamental and applied problems in computer vision and machine learning, with an emphasis on generalization and the reliability of learning systems. His applied work spans healthcare, biomedical imaging, and cognitive neuroscience. 

He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Yale University in 2024; his M.S. from Stanford University in 2019; and his B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2017. He has also held research positions at Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), Google DeepMind, and Tencent AI Lab. He serves on the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society and the SUNY AI Symposium Planning Committee, and as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Pattern Recognition, Transactions on Machine Learning Research, and Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. 

His honors include the AAAI'26 New Faculty Highlights, CPAL'26 Rising Stars Award, ICML'25 Oral Presentation Award, EMBC'25 Top Paper Award, IEEE TMI'25 Distinguished Associate Editor Certificate of Excellence, MICCAI'25 NIH Registration Grant, Tinker Research Grant, Lambda Research Grant, Stony Brook President's Fast Impact Fund Award, and Yale's George P. O'Leary Graduate Fellowship. He has been named among the World's Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists by Stanford University since 2024, is a member of Sigma Xi, and received Stony Brook's Excellence in Teaching Award in both Spring and Fall 2025.