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Yongkai Chen

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

Early career · publishing since 2018

Publications

48

Citations

263

Est. group size

~3

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

9

Publishing since 2018

Research summary
AI-generated

This researcher's publication record spans a wide and somewhat disconnected set of topics, including compressible/turbulent fluid dynamics, statistical machine learning methods (knowledge distillation, deep kernel networks), and applications in biomedical imaging, spatial transcriptomics, and food packaging materials. The bibliographic data suggests work at the intersection of computational statistics and engineering fluid mechanics, though the breadth of subject areas indicates possible name overlap across multiple distinct researchers or highly diverse collaborations. Publication venues range from physics and aerospace engineering journals to statistics, AI, and biology preprint servers.

Turbulent and compressible fluid flowStatistical machine learning and knowledge distillationNonparametric functional estimationBiomedical imaging and cardiac modelingSpatial transcriptomics and computational biology

Publication output has grown markedly over the last decade, rising from near zero before 2020 to a peak of over ten papers per year in 2021, 2025, and 2026, though with some fluctuation in between.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.6/year recently
172018: 1 publication18192020: 2 publications202021: 11 publications212022: 4 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 4 publications242025: 12 publications12252026: 11 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×13
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics×4
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×3
  • Physical Review Fluids×2
  • Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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