Prof. Chen Li

• School of Computer Science and Technology Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University.
  
• Professor, Doctoral Supervisor.

cli@xjtu.edu.cn

Education

• Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (UK)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship from MIT (USA)

Work Experience

• Currently working as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Telecommunication, Xi’an Jiaotong University
• Engaged in biomedical text mining research and development at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the world’s largest bioinformatics institute
• Deputy Director, National Youth Intelligent Networks and Network Security Key Laboratory, Ministry of Education
• Deputy Director, Technical Committee of Shanghai Pediatric Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Technology Engineering Research Center
• Deputy Director, Molecular Pathology Specialty Committee of Shaanxi Province

Academic and Social Appointments

• Standing Committee Member, Oral Health Big Data Specialty Alliance, Chinese Society of Health Information and Big Data
• Guest Editor, Mathematics Journal
• Expert, National Health Commission Medical Health Artificial Intelligence Expert Group

Notable Achievements

• Developed the BioModels data standard system, recognized as a crucial resource in the field of systems biology
• Interviewed by Nature for the significant impact of the BioModels system
• BioModels has received widespread attention and support from over 200 journals, with international academic publishers recommending contributors to deposit their data on the platform
• Analyzed by the European Union as a success case in the European Bioinformatics Architecture Initiative (ISBE) program book
• Led the winning team in the international competition for biological text mining, BioNLP, achieving first place in the SeeDev task in 2016
• Awarded the SAIL (Super AI Leader) Award at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2022
• Led and participated in several national healthcare AI projects and the development of national and local standards
• Overseas Fellowship from the University of Cambridge

Research Contributions

• Focused on medical informatics and healthcare artificial intelligence, published nearly 200 papers in top international conferences and journals such as ACL, CVPR, AAAI, ICLR and Nature sub-journals.

Reviewer and Program Reviewer

• Invited to serve as a reviewer and program reviewer for several international journals and conferences
• Program reviewer for BBSRC, the largest scientific research fund in the field of biosciences in the UK
• Member of the organizing committee of EMNLP and NAACL, top international conferences on natural language processing
• Reviewer for international journals Bioinformatics and Journal of Biomedical Semantics in the field of bioinformatics
• Reviewer for top international conferences in the field of natural language processing, such as ACL and RANLP

Publications

• ViLa-MIL: Dual-scale Vision-Language Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification
  Jiangbo Shi, Chen Li, Tieliang Gong, Yefeng Zheng, Huazhu Fu
  CVPR 2024
• Provable Domain Generalization via Information Theory Guided Distribution Matching
  Y Dong, T Gong, H Chen, S Song, C Li
  ICLR 2024 Conference
• Optimal Randomized Approximations for Matrix-based Rényi’s Entropy
  Yuxin Dong, Tieliang Gong, Shujian Yu, Chen Li
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
• Efficient Approximations for Matrix-Based Rényi’s Entropy on Sequential Data
  Yuxin Dong, Tieliang Gong, Hong Chen, Chen Li
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• PRAM: An End-to-end Prototype-based Representation Alignment Model for Zero-resource Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition
  Yucheng Huang, Wenqiang Liu, Xianli Zhang, Jun Lang, Tieliang Gong, Chen Li
  Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
• Robust and fast measure of information via low-rank representation
  Yuxin Dong, Tieliang Gong, Shujian Yu, Hong Chen, Chen Li
  Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• Using word embedding for bio-event extraction
  Chen Li, Runqing Song, Maria Liakata, Andreas Vlachos, Stephanie Seneff, Xiangrong Zhang
  Proceedings of BioNLP
• Biological network extraction from scientific literature: state of the art and challenges
  Chen Li, Maria Liakata, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
  Briefings in bioinformatics
• BioModels Database: An enhanced, curated and annotated resource for published quantitative kinetic models
  Chen Li, Marco Donizelli, Nicolas Rodriguez, Harish Dharuri, Lukas Endler, Vijayalakshmi Chelliah, Lu Li, Enuo He, Arnaud Henry, Melanie I Stefan, Jacky L Snoep, Michael Hucka, Nicolas Le Novere, Camille Laibe
  BMC systems biology
• BioModels. net Web Services, a free and integrated toolkit for computational modelling software
  Chen Li, Mélanie Courtot, Nicolas Le Novère, Camille Laibe
  Briefings in bioinformatics