About me

Hi, I am Changmin Yu (于昌民). I am currently a postdoc in computational neuroscience at Computational and Biological Lab in the engineering department at University of Cambridge, advised by Máté Lengyel. Previously, I did my PhD in computational neuroscience and machine learning at UCL, supervised by Neil Burgess and Maneesh Sahani. My research focus on normative modelling of hippocampal system with probabilistic inference. I am also interested in deep generative models and reinforcement learning. I have previously undertaken industrial placements in Optiver, Meta, Microsoft Research, and Huawei, and was a visiting PhD student in Sam Gershman’s lab. Prior to PhD, I studied mathematics at Imperial College and Cambridge.

Starting January 2026, I will join the newly instantiated Shanghai Innovation Institute as an assistant professor, my lab will be focusing on computational neuroscience and brain-inspired AI, please get in touch if you are interested in working with me, either as a PhD student or an internship placement.

In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, playing football and tennis.