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: 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