Yongan Yu

McGill University | Undergraduate Research Assistant

About Me

I am a 2nd-year undergraduate student at McGill University, major in Computer Science with a minor in Geographical Information Science, I will be graduated in 2026! 🧑🎓

I am currently working on research at McGill as a research assistant, supervised by professor Luke McCaffrey (Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute). The short-term goals of the current project are to create a simulation model that reproduces the tissue patterns to observe in early breast cancer. The longer-term goals are to vary the input parameters to alter disease progression in the simulation model, then researchers will test it experimentally in cells and tissues.  🦠💻

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Experience

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Rosalind & Morris Goodman Cancer Institute, McGill University |  Jan 2023 - Present

Under the supervision of Prof. Luke McCaffrey, Studied the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression. With developing simulation models, Solved ODEs and PDEs for making computing the deformation of a nonlinearly elastic body and generated basic bidomain simulation with Chaste through C++ and Python.

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Teaching Assistant

JNC Study Abroad Platform, Guangzhou | April 2023 - June 2023

As a Teaching Assistant for the 2023 summer courses "Calculus I" with Prof. Tess St.John and "Linear Algebra" with Prof. Kristine Buddemeyer at Jinan University. Held office hour, organized discussion sessions and corrected homework assignments.

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Event Coordinator

HackMcGill, McGill University | Sep 2022 - Present

Assisted with a team to build financial sponsorship from Royal Bank Canada in McHacksOrganized McHacks 10th coding Hackathon with thousands of students and companies.

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Risk Management Specialist

China Citic Bank | Jul 2020 - Aug 2020

Completed one project - “central bank risk management” with the current risk rating methodAnalyzed 62% of systemic data with complying marketing materials Built one proposal and finished two reports quantifying the company's investment risks

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