Haiyan Yu is an Associate Professor at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China). He obtained his Ph.D. from Tianjin University in 2015. Subsequently, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China from 2016 to 2017, and at Pennsylvania State University (US) from 2017 to 2020. Additionally, he was a Visiting Scholar at Purdue University (US) from 2020 to 2021. His research interests include causal inference and machine learning, personalized medicine, quality management, constrained optimization, and clinical decision support systems.