My group works on fundamental methodology and theory on statistical machine learning and deep learning, as well as their high-impact applications such as healthcare, network analysis, recommender systems, forecasting, computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing.

    Below are some active (and interconnected) research areas (see here for more and Publication for details):

Bayesian Deep Learning

 

(Probabilistic) Zero-Shot Learning and Domain Adaptation

 

    We went beyond the conventional categorical domain adaptation regime and proposed the first approach to adapt across continuously indexed domains (ICML’20a, ICML’21c), graph-relational domains (ICLR’22), and taxonomy-structured domains (ICML’23b) as well as when the domain index is unavailable (ICLR’23). We developed the first unified framework for existing domain incremental learning algorithms (NeurIPS’23). We significantly simplified deep learning models for zero-shot learning (CVPR’19). We have also developed the first sleep posture estimation model that generalizes across subjects in the wild (Ubicomp’20).

Machine Learning for Healthcare

 

    We have developed new ML algorithms for various healthcare applications. Our algorithms lead to (1) the first contactless medication self-administration monitoring system (Nature Medicine’21), (2) the first contactless Parkinson’s disease detection and assessment system (Nature Medicine’22), (3) the first general ML model that adapts across patients of different ages (ICML’20a), (4) the first contactless, multi-person breathing (Ubicomp’18) and sleep posture (Ubicomp’20) monitoring system that works in the wild.

(Bayesian) Deep-Learning-Based Recommender Systems

 

    We have developed the first hierarchical Bayesian model for deep hybrid recommender systems (KDD’15, AAAI’15, NeurIPS’16a, AAAI’22), bringing the accuracy of recommender systems to a new level and leading to a paradigm shift in recommender system research. Our pioneering DL-based recommender systems inspired hundreds of follow-up works and speed up the DL paradigm shift in the field of recommender systems.

Bias & Fairness in Learning

 

    Bias and imbalance are major obstacles for real-world ML deployment. We have developed novel theories and methodologies to correct for the exposure bias in ML algorithms (ICML’21b) and address the imbalance issue in DL models, including the first deep imbalanced regression benchmark (ICML’21c), the first imbalanced domain generalization algorithm (ECCV’22a), and the first imbalanced/fair uncertainty quantification algorithm (NeurIPS’23a).




 
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