Haoyu Hu

Hi, I’m Haoyu Hu. I’m currently a PhD student working with Dr. Nori Jacoby at Cornell University on human-AI collaboration and reinforcement learning. I also work closely with Dr. Xuhai Orson Xu at Columbia University on AI application in the medical area. Previously I studied one year at the University of Cambridge in clinical neurosciences. I gained my bachelor’s in psychology at Zhejiang University.

I’m interested in finding the best role allocations for the human-machine hybrid society: How human and AI collaborate in a more efficient and effective way with safeguards, especially in data-sensitive areas like medicine? With lessons learned from the collaboration, I also train the model to serve and learn from human preferences and organizations.

I’m open to collaboration, feel free to shoot me an email if you share similar interests with me!


Email: hh824@cornell.edu

Haoyu Hu

PhD Student
Cornell University

News

Aug. 2026 Our Nature Medicine paper is online available!

Jul. 2026 Our Science Advances paper is online available!

Publications

See my Google Scholar profile for the complete list.

dermatology paper figure
Divergent impacts of explainable AI for dermatological diagnosis on clinicians versus lay people

XO Xu, H Hu, H Zhang, WK Wang, R Wang, LR Soenksen, O Badri, et al.

Nature Medicine (2026)

brain asymmetry paper figure
Global hemispheric differences in brain morphology: connections with brain functions and aging in health and disease

H Hu, D Guo, Y Pu, Y Abuduaini, X Wang, C Francks, PM Thompson, et al.

Science Advances (2026)

D-CoRP paper figure
D-CoRP: Differentiable Connectivity Refinement for Functional Brain Networks

H Hu, H Zhang, C Li

MICCAI 2024

hand preference paper figure
Machine learning of large-scale multimodal brain imaging data reveals neural correlates of hand preference

P Chormai, Y Pu, H Hu, SE Fisher, C Francks, XZ Kong

NeuroImage 262, 119534 (2022)

Experience

Cornell logo Cornell University
PhD student in Psychology · Aug. 2025 - present
Cambridge logo University of Cambridge
Clinical Neurosciences · Jan. 2024 - Jan. 2025
Zhejiang University logo Zhejiang University
BS in Psychology with Honors · Sept. 2019 - Jun. 2023

Service and Teaching

Aug. 2026 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Social Psychology