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2024

  • [2024 winter]: DrQi's gave an Invited Keynote speech at the 2024 NeurIPS Workshop on Responsibly Building Next Generation of Multimodal Foundation Models. Talk Title: Improving toxicity guardrails’ adversarial robustness.
2023

  • Dr. Qi have been awarded as a School of Engineering and Applied Science Copenhaver Fellow effective 23-26;
2021

2020

  • [2020 Spring]: DrQi is Sabbatical at UC Berkeley Statistics Department.
  • [2020/05/05]: Congratulations to my students, Jack Lanchantin and John Morris, who received 2019-2020 UVA CS Department Awards. See award details (Here). Jack Morris received Louis T. Rader Chairperson Award (for leadership in research ); Jack Lanchantin received Outstanding Service Award.

 

2019

  • [2019/06]: Dr. Qi is promoted to associate professor of computer science without term (tenured), effective August 2019.
  • [2019/05/01]: Congratulations to my Ph.D. students, Jack Lanchantin and Weilin Xu. Both were selected for the 2018-19 UVA CS Graduate Service Award.
  • [2019/04/15]: Big Congratulations to my third Ph.D. student, Weilin Xu, who successfully passed his dissertation defense today! Dissertation title: "Improving Robustness of Neural Networks using Domain Knowledge". (Weilin will be a Research Staff Member at Intel Research Lab from Summer 2019.
  • [2019/04/05]: Congratulations to my Computer Science PhD student, Jack Lanchantin, who has been awarded as the UVA Presidential Fellows Award in Data Science 2019-2020.
  • [2019/03/03]: My PhD student Jack gave the very first talk at UVA AIML-seminar today! Great job- [Jack Lanchantin, "Deep Learning for Genomics". He introduced two essential biologica processes related to the Genome and explain our work in using deep learning to predict and understand them. Seminar Announcement at https://uvaml.github.io/.

 

2018

  • [2018/07/20]: Big congratulations to my second Ph.D. student Beilun Wang! He has just passed his Ph.D. defense ! Dissertation: jointnets.org; Beilun, we’re all very proud of you! (Beilun will be an Assistant Professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering of Southeast University in China from Fall 2018.
  • [2018/03/12]: Big congratulations to my first Ph.D. student Ritambhara Singh! She has just passed her Ph.D. defense this Monday! Title: Fast and Interpretable Classification of Sequential Data in Biology; Ritas, we’re all very proud of you! (Rita will be an Assistant Professor at Computer Science Department of Brown University (deferred to 2019; 18-19 at U.Washington))).
  • [2018/03/12]: Congratulations to my Computer Science Ph.D. student, "Jack Lanchantin" who has just been awarded the UVA Store G Olsson Endowed Graduate Fellowship effective Fall 2018.
  • [2018/05/03]:Congratulations to my Computer Science PhD student, Beilun Wang, who won the Computer Science Graduate Research Award of 2017-2018.
  • [2018/05/03]:Congratulations to my Computer Science under-capstone students, Derrick Blakely and Eamon Collins. Eamon and Derrick won the Computer Science Undergraduate Research Award of 2017-2018.
  • [2018/05/03]:Congratulations to my under-capstone student Zachary Skemp, whose undergraduate thesis project was selected into the finalist of UVA SEAS Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium-Design track 2017-2018.
  • [2018/05/05]: Congratulations to my Computer Science PhD student, Arshdeep Sekhon, who has been awarded as the UVA Presidential Fellows Award in Data Science 2018-2019.
  • [2018/03/03]: Dr. Qi just contributed two talks at UCLA Computational Genomics Winter Institute and NCBI CBB seminar. Talk title: Making Deep Learning Understandable for Analyzing Sequential Data about Gene Regulation. Slide @ (Here) ; Video Recording @ (Youtube):

 

2017

  • [2017/03/30]: Dr. Qi won the "Advisor of the Year" award in the UVERS (University of Virginia Engineering Research Symposium)! The Advisor of the Year award was selected by the graduate students of UVA school of engineering.
  • [2017/12]: Congratulations to my PhD student, Jack Lanchantin. His DeepMotif paper has received the “best paper award“ at NIPS2017 workshop for Transparent and interpretable Machine Learning in Safety Critical Environments. Code available at at (Here).
  • [2017/12]: Congratulations to my PhD student, "Jack Lanchantin" who has received the NIPS-2017 travel fellowship.
  • [2017/12]: Congratulations to my PhD student, "Ritambhara Singh" who has received the NIPS-2017 travel fellowship.
  • [2017/11/02]: My PhD student, Beilun Wang, delivered an exciting talk @ UVA Neuroscience Graduate Program Retreat 2017. Talk Title: A Constrained, Weighted-L1 Minimization Approach for Joint Discovery of Heterogeneous Neural Connectivity Graphs. Presentation slides available at (Here).
  • [2017/05/22]: In the past year, I’ve been so fortunate to work with Muthuraman Chidambaram, Chandan Singh and Andrew Norton. Yesterday they all obtained the Bachelor of Computer Science with the highest distinction! Muthu and Chandan also got their degrees in three years! Big congratulations!
  • [2017/05/10]: Congratulations to my PhD student, Ritambhara Singh, who has been awarded with a GHC Student Scholarship to attend the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2017 (#GHC17).
  • [2017/04/23]: Congratulations to my under-RA: Chandan Singh, His senior thesis "A novel Machine-Learning Algorithm for Uncovering Brain Connections Underlying Autism" was named as the winner of SEAS Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium-Design. He has also won the Computer Science Undergraduate Research Award of 2016-2017.
  • [2017/03/30]: Congratulations to my PhD student, Ritambhara Singh, who won first prize in the UVERS (University of Virginia Engineering Research Symposium) podium presentation competition. She has also won the Computer Science Graduate Research Award of 2016-2017.

 

2016

  • [2016/09/16]: Dr. Qi, gave an invited talk @ UVA DSI (Datapalooza Event). Talk Title: "Machine Learning for Big Data in Biomedicine". (Slide)
  • [2016/09/01]: Dr. Qi, Prof. Evans and Prof. Weimer an NSF grant, "TWC: Small: Automatic Techniques for Evaluating and Hardening Machine Learning Classifiers in the Presence of Adversaries"! (abstract).

 

2015

  • [2015/08/18]: Dr. Qi has received an NSF CAREER award! (NSF CAREER awards are extremely competitive and prestigious grants for pre-tenure faculty).
  • [2015/03/18]: Our research is featured ! at (UVAToday) : "Computer Scientist Translates Data into Impact".
  • [2015/04]: Graduate-Master-Member Sarah Masud Preum has successfully finished her master thesis defense ! .
  • [2015/04]: Graduate-Master-Member Nicholas Janus has successfully finished his master project presentation ! .

 

2014

  • [2014/10/01]: Best Paper Award ! for our paper: J. Gong, P. Asare, J. Lach, Y. Qi, (2014) "Piecewise Linear Dynamical Model for Actions Clustering from Inertial Body Sensors with Considerations of Human Factors", BodyNets 2014 : 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets2014) (BodyNets2014) (PDF) (TalkSlides)

 

2013

  • [2013/08]:    After working in the industry research lab for five years. Dr. Qi returned back to academia as a faculty member at Computer Science Department in University of Virginia !

 

2008-- 2013 summer

  • Dr. Qi got Promoted to Senior Researcher of NEC Labs America, in June 2013.
  • Dr. Qi Won the 2nd place in TREC Medical Track 2012 automatic run (out of 82 submissions)
  • Dr. Qi Won NEC-Labs 2011 Sprouting award (team award; as team lead)
  • Dr. Qi Won NEC contribution award of IT service BU 2010 (team award, as team member).
  • Dr. Qi Won NEC-Labs 2010 SEEDs award (4 out of 18 candidate teams! team award; as team lead)
  • Dr. Qi Won NEC-Labs 2009 SEEDs award (team award; as team lead) 

 

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