Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Advisor: Prof. Naren Ramakrishnan Email: yiqisu@vt.edu Research interests: Computational Epidemiology; AI for Healthcare; Generative AI; World Model Reasoning [Google Scholar]

Latest News

• [04/2026] I have been selected for the Graduate Student International Conference Travel Fellowship offered by Global Engineering, Engagement & Research (GEER)
• [03/2026] I have been selected for a fully-funded scholarship to attend the ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC 2026).
• [03/2026] I have been awarded the Sanghani Center Travel Grant offered by Institute for Advanced Computing
• [03/2026] Our paper Toward World Models for Epidemiology has been accepted by ICLR 2026 Workshop World Models: Understanding, Modelling and Scaling
• [02/2026] Our paper A Machine Learning Strategy to Predict the Number of High-Acuity Children Who Leave Without Being Seen from the Emergency Department was published Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open (JACEP Open)
• [11/2025] Our paper Exploring LLMs for Scientific Information Extraction using the SciEx Framework has been accepted by Knowledge-guided ML Bridging Scientific Knowledge and AI (AAAI-26 Bridge Program)
• [10/2025] Our paper Enhancing Fairness and Accuracy in Diagnosing Type 2 Diabetes in Young Population was published at IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Education

• Virginia Tech, 09/2022 - present
  Ph.D. student in Computer Science, GPA 3.95/4.0
• Columbia University, 09/2016 - 05/2018
  Master of Science in Biostatistics (Theory and Methods Track), GPA 3.76/4.0
• Nanjing Agricultural University, 09/2013 - 06/2016
  Master of Agriculture in Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology, GPA 4.0/4.0, Rank 3/162
• Northwest Minzu University, 09/2009 - 06/2013
  Bachelor of Agriculture in Veterinary Medicine, GPA 3.87/4.0, Rank 1/300

Awards & Honors

• Graduate Student International Conference Travel Fellowship, 2026
• ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) Scholarship, 2026
• Sanghani Center Graduate Student Travel Grant , 2026
• Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Scholarship (16.5%), 2023
• National Scholarship (top 3%), 2011, 2012
• Merit Student of Institution of Higher Education in Gansu Province (top 0.16%), 2012
• National English Contest for College Students, First Prize (top 0.5%), 2011
• National Encouragement Scholarship (top 3%), 2010

Work Experience

• Data Analyst II, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York, NY, 07/2018 - 08/2022
  
• Research Assistant, Columbia University Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP), New York, NY, 10/2017 - 05/2018
  
• Data Analyst Intern, Clinical Directors Network, Inc. (CDN), New York, NY, 06/2017 - 08/2017
  
• Data Analyst Intern, Catholic Medical Mission Board, Inc. (CMMB), New York, NY, 12/2016 - 04/2017
  
• Research Assistant, Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China, 09/2014 - 05/2016
  

Publications

An Invariant Compiler for Neural ODEs in AI-Accelerated Scientific Simulation
Fangzhou Yu, Yiqi Su, Ray Lee, Shenfeng Cheng, Naren Ramakrishnan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.23861, March 2026

Modeling Epidemiological Dynamics Under Adversarial Data and User Deception
Yiqi Su, Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Walid Saad, Bud Mishra, Naren Ramakrishnan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20134, February 2026

How (Not) to Hybridize Neural and Mechanistic Models for Epidemiological Forecasting
Yiqi Su, Ray Lee, Jiaming Cui, Naren Ramakrishnan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06323, February 2026

A Machine Learning Strategy to Predict the Number of High-Acuity Children Who Leave Without Being Seen From the Emergency Department
Kenneth McKinley, Brandon Kappy, Patrick Butler, Yiqi Su, Trang Ha, Sarah Isbey, James M. Chamberlain, Naren Ramakrishnan, Marius George Linguraru
JACEP Open, Vol. 7, No. 1, 100306, February 2026

Agentic Framework for Epidemiological Modeling
Rituparna Datta, Zihan Guan, Baltazar Espinoza, Yiqi Su, Priya Pitre, Srini Venkatramanan, Naren Ramakrishnan, Anil Vullikanti
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00299, January 2026

Exploring LLMs for Scientific Information Extraction Using the SciEx Framework
Sha Li, Ayush Sadekar, Nathan Self, Yiqi Su, Lars Andersland, Mira Chaplin, Annabel Zhang, Hyoju Yang, James B. Henderson, Krista Wigginton, Linsey Marr, T. M. Murali, Naren Ramakrishnan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.10004, December 2025

Enhancing Fairness and Accuracy in Diagnosing Type 2 Diabetes in Young Adult Population
Tanmoy Sarkar Pias, Yiqi Su, Xuxin Tang, Haohui Wang, Shahriar Faghani, Danfeng Yao
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2025

Impact of primary letermovir prophylaxis vs preemptive antiviral therapy for cytomegalovirus on economic and clinical outcomes after hematopoietic cell transplantation
Carrie A. Tan, Lauren Palen, Yiqi Su, Yuxuan Li, Renee L. Gennarelli, Miguel-Angel Perales, Nina Cohen, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou, Gunjan L. Shah, Susan K. Seo
Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, May 2024

Comparative transcriptomic and phenotypic analysis of induced pluripotent stem cell hepatocyte-like cells and primary human hepatocytes
Neeti Gandhi, Lauren Wills, Kyle Akers, Yiqi Su, Parker Niccum, T. M. Murali, Padmavathy Rajagopalan
Cell and Tissue Research, February 2024

The Clinical Significance of the Drug-Drug Interaction between Letermovir and Voriconazole in Stem Cell Transplantation
Edward Lee, Andrew Lin, Yiqi Su, Christina Cho, Susan K. Seo
Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings (TCT), February 2024

Third-party cytomegalovirus-specific T cells improved survival in refractory cytomegalovirus viremia after hematopoietic transplant
Susan E. Prockop, Aisha Hasan, Ekaterina Doubrovina, Parastoo B. Dahi, Irene Rodriguez-Sanchez, Michael Curry, Audrey Mauguen, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou, Yiqi Su, JinJuan Yao, Maria Arcila, Farid Boulad, Hugo Castro-Malaspina, Christina Cho, Kevin J. Curran, Sergio Giralt, Nancy A. Kernan, Guenther Koehne, Ann Jakubowski, Esperanza Papadopoulos, Miguel-Angel Perales, Ioannis Politikos, Keith Price, Annamalai Selvakumar, Craig S. Sauter, Roni Tamari, Teresa Vizconde, James W. Young, Richard J. O’Reilly
The Journal of Clinical Investigation, March 2023

Bacterial infections and antibiotic utilization varies by coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) severity in hospitalized cancer patients
Kayla R. Maki, Samantha N. Steiger, Yiqi Su, Aida Boumiza, Carrie A. Tan, Marina Kerpelev, Susan K. Seo, Nina Cohen
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, March 2023

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) prevention with letermovir and mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT): a retrospective cohort study
Yiqi Su*, Anat Stern* (* equal contribution), Eleni Karantoni, Tamara Nawar, Gyuri Han, Phaedon D. Zavras, Henry Dumke, Christina Cho, Roni Tamari, Brian Shaffer, Sergio A. Giralt, Ann A. Jakubowski, Miguel-Angel Perales, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou
Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID), September 2022

Outcomes of refractory cytomegalovirus infection in the first year after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation
Eleni Karantoni, Phaedon D. Zavras, Yiqi Su, Jiaqi Fang, Roni Tamari, Christina Cho, Miguel-Angel Perales, Anat Stern, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou
Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (TCT), June 2022

CMV viral load kinetics predict CMV end-organ disease and mortality after hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT)
Anat Stern*, Yiqi Su* (* equal contribution), Henry Dumke, Jiaqi Fang, Roni Tamari, Ann A. Jakubowski, Christina Cho, Sergio A. Giralt, Miguel-Angel Perales, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou
The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID), August 2021

Human herpes virus 6 viremia is associated with worse survival after ex vivo T-cell depleted hematopoietic cell transplant
Yeon Joo Lee, Yiqi Su, Christina Cho, Roni Tamari, Miguel-Angel Perales, Ann A. Jakubowski*, Genovefa Papanicolaou* (* equal contribution)
The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID), August 2021

Efficacy and safety of isavuconazole compared with voriconazole as primary antifungal prophylaxis in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant recipients
Yael Bogler*, Anat Stern* (* equal contribution), Yiqi Su, Yeon Joo Lee, Susan K. Seo, Brian Shaffer, Miguel-Angel Perales, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou, Dionysios Neofytos
Medical Mycology (MM), May 2021

Impact of Preemptive Therapy for Cytomegalovirus on Hospitalizations and Cost after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Jiaqi Fang*, Yiqi Su* (* equal contribution), Phaedon D. Zavras, Amit D. Raval, Yuexin Tang, Miguel-Angel Perales, Sergio A. Giralt, Anat Stern, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BBMT), July 2020

A Single-Center, Open-Label Trial of Isavuconazole Prophylaxis against Invasive Fungal Infection in Patients Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Anat Stern, Yiqi Su, Yeon Joo Lee, Susan K. Seo, Brian Shaffer, Roni Tamari, Boglarka Gyurkocza, Juliet Barker, Yael Bogler, Sergio A. Giralt, Miguel-Angel Perales, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BBMT), June 2020

Impact of preemptive therapy for cytomegalovirus on toxicities after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in clinical practice: a retrospective single-center cohort study
Phaedon D. Zavras*, Yiqi Su* (* equal contribution), Jiaqi Fang, Anat Stern, Nitasha Gupta, Yuexin Tang, Amit D. Raval, Sergio A. Giralt, Miguel-Angel Perales, Ann A. Jakubowski, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BBMT), April 2020

Letermovir for primary and secondary cytomegalovirus prevention in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant recipients: Real‐world experience
Andrew Lin, Molly Maloy, Yiqi Su, Valkal Bhatt, Lauren DeRespiris, Meagan Griffin, Carmen Lau, Anthony Proli, Juliet Barker, Brian Shaffer, Sergio A. Giralt, Ann A. Jakubowski, Esperanza B. Papadopoulos, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou, Susan K. Seo, Miguel‐Angel Perales
Transplant Infectious Disease (TID), October 2019

Cytomegalovirus infection in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation managed by the preemptive approach: estimating the impact on healthcare resource utilization and outcomes
Yao-Ting Huang*, Yiqi Su* (* equal contribution), Seong Jin Kim, Paige Nichols, Daniel Burack, Molly A. Maloy, Sergio A. Giralt, Miguel-Angel Perales, Ann A. Jakubowski, Genovefa A. Papanicolaou
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BBMT), April 2019

Screening of Streptococcus Suis serotype 2 resistance genes with GWAS and transcriptomic microarray analysis
Zhe Ma, Haodan Zhu, Yiqi Su, Yu Meng, Huixing Lin, Kongwang He, Hongjie Fan
BMC Genomics, December 2018

Capsule of Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus hampers the adherence and invasion of epithelial and endothelial cells and is attenuated during internalization
Bin Xu, Xiaomeng Pei, Yiqi Su, Zhe Ma, Hongjie Fan
FEMS Microbiology Letters, August 2016

A novel suicide shuttle plasmid for Streptococcus suis serotype 2 and Streptococcus equi ssp. zooepidemicus gene mutation
Rui Liu, Ping Zhang, Yiqi Su, Huixing Lin, Hui Zhang, Lei Yu, Zhe Ma, Hongjie Fan
Scientific Reports, June 2016