Speaker：Qiwei Li (University of Texas at Dallas)

Time：2023-7-3, 17:00

Location：Conference Room 105 at Experiment Building at Haiyun Campus

Abstract:

Dr. Qiwei Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Before joining UTD in 2019, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at Rice University in 2016 under the supervision of Dr. Marina Vannucci. Dr. Li has been actively involved in developing Bayesian methodology to address critical biomedicine issues. Dr. Li has been very productive in high-dimensional count data modeling, spatial analysis, and shape analysis. The developed methods have been used to analyze spatial transcriptomcis data, microbiome data, and artificial intelligence-reconstructed medical imaging data. He has over 50 publications in top impact peer-reviewed journals such as the Annals of Applied Statistics, Biometrics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and more in the past five years since he started his academic career. His research is also recognized by government agencies, including NIH and NSF, where he is serving as PI and co-PI for many grants.