Email: didongli@unc.edu
News:
2025/09: I am serving as an Area Chair for ICLR 2026
2025/08: Eric passed the prelim!
2025/08: Ameer, Christine, Hongyu, Shiyi all passed the PhD qualifying exam, Hongyu got special recommendation for both theory and applied quals
Yutong passed the MS qualyfing exam, with special recommendation for the theory part
2025/08: Talk at NeuroConnect
2025/08: Talk at JSM
2025/08: We are excited to receive a NAIRR OpenAI API grant, to support our research on LLM embeddings.
2025/06: Kevin and Hong's paper on deep generative model accepted by JMLR
2025/06: Talk at BNP 14
2025/06: Talk at ICSA Applied Symposium
2025/06: Kevin won the ICSA Student Paper Award, Jiawen received the Honorable Mention!
2025/05: Talk at StatGen
2025/05: Paper on improving ML conference peer review accepted by JASA as a Discussion Paper
2025/05: Official graduation day for:
PhD students Sam (Assistant Professor, Skidmore Colleger) and Jiawen (postdoc, Gladstone/Stanford)
MS students Jinwei (PhD, UNC BIOS) and Cuiran (PhD, Buffalo BIOS)
Undergrads Yueen (PhD, Rice Statistics), Geoffery (PhD, UNC STOR), Shuying (MS, Harvard CBQG) and Shreya (MS, UNC BIOS)
2025/04: I am serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025
2025/04: Ameer presented at ICLR
2025/04: Talk at Duke B&B seminar
2025/04: Sam defended her disseration, congrats Dr. Hawke!
2025/03: Our team with Jiawen and Yun Li won Phase 1 of DataWorks! Prize Challenge 2025, with $25,000 cash prize
2025/03: Jiawen defended her disseration, congrats Dr. Chen!
2025/02: Christine's paper on network curvature accepted by TMLR
2025/02: Paper on multi-group GP accepted by JMLR
2025/02: Jiawen presented at Yale Biostatistics Seminar
2025/02: Jordan presented at U Virginia Data Science seminar
2025/02: Jordan presented at Ohio State Statistics seminar
2025/01: Jiawen presented at Purdue Statistics Seminar
2025/01: Our STimage-1K4M dataset was downloaded over 100,000 times on Hugging Face!
2025/01: Jordan presented at U Chicago Biostatistics seminar
2025/01: Ameer's paper on GP identifiaibility for holomorphic kernels accepted by ICLR 2025
2024/12: We are excited to receive an NVIDIA Academic Grant, providing 10K A100 GPU-Hours to support our research on multi-modal AI for spatial transcriptomics.
2024/12: Eric's paper on contrastive functional dimensional reduction accepted by AAAI 2025
2024/11: Jordan presented at Virginia Tech Statistics seminar
2024/11: Sam and Jiawen passed the prelim!
2024/11: Wancen and Jiawen's paper on GP-based lead-lag effect detection accepted by Biometrics
2024/10: Paper on inverse reinforcement learning accepted by TMLR
2024/10: Paper on contrastive regression accepted by AoAS
2024/09: Sam and Yueen's paper on contrastive inverse regression accepted by New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science
2024/09: Jiawen and Jinwei's paper on Spatial Transcriptomics dataset accepted by NeurIPS (DB) 2024
2024/09: Sam and Yueen's paper on contrastive dimension estimation accepted by NeurIPS 2024
2024/09: Hong's paper on Spatial clustering for Carolina Breast Cancer Study accepted by PSB 2024
2024/08: Jordan, Hong, Jiawen and Sam presented at JSM 2024
2024/07: Jordan's paper Comments on Contemporary Uses of Machine Learning for Electronic Health Records by was published on NC Medical Journal
2024/06: Talk at ICSA Applied Symposium
2024/05: Paper on design of spatial omics studies accepted by Nature Communication
2024/05: Talk at New England Statistics Symposium
2024/05: Talk at StatGen
2024/05: Talk at U Maryland Math
2024/03: Talk at Clemson Statistics
2024/03: Jiawen won the MCBIOS Young Scientist Excellence Award
2024/03: Christine, Jiawen, Michael and Sam present at ENAR 2024
2024/02: Talk at Texas A&M Statistics
2024/01: Wancen defended her dissertation, congrats Dr. Mu!
2024/01: Paper on probablistic contrastive dimension reduction accepted by AoAS
2023/12: Christine, Jiawen and Wancen present at NeurIPS 2023
2023/11: Talk at Rice Statistics
2023/11: Talk at U Delaware Statistics
2023/09: Talk at Emory Biostatistics
2023/09: Jiawen and Wancen's Paper by on identifiability and interpretability of Gaussian processes accepted by NeurIPS 2023