• Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Yimeng Min

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Cornell University – 2026
  • M.A.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto – 2019
  • B.S., Physics, Nanjing University – 2017

Research Interests

    • Artificial intelligence for science
    • Computational sustainability
    • Generative models
    • Geometric deep learning

Awards & Honors

  • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Scholar Award – 2022
  • Ted Rogers Scholarship, University of Toronto – 2018
  • Candidate for Student of the Year, Nanjing University – 2017

Selected Publications

  • Min, Y. and Gomes, C.P. 2025. “Structure as Search: Unsupervised Permutation Learning for Combinatorial Optimization.” Graph Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS.
  • Min, Y., Bai, Y., and Gomes, C.P. 2023. “Unsupervised Learning for Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem.” NeurIPS.
  • Liu, S.C., Dai, C.M., Min, Y., Hou, Y., Proppe, A.H. et al. 2021. “An Antibonding Valence Band Maximum Enables Defect-Tolerant and Stable GeSe Photovoltaics.” Nature Communications.
  • Zhong, M., Tran, K., Min, Y., Wang, C. et al. 2020. “Accelerated Discovery of CO₂ Electrocatalysts Using Active Machine Learning.” Nature.
  • Min, Y., Mukkavilli, S.K., Bengio, Y. 2019. “Predicting Ice Flow Using Machine Learning.” NeurIPS 2019 Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning.