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Bimodal Interpretable Multi-instane Medical Image Classification Aapproah by Deep AUC Maximization. NSF SCH (2023) Lead PI with Co-PI Tong Wang (Yale) and Bathla Girish (Mayo Clinic).
Deep Learning and Subtyping of Post-COVID-19 Lung Progression Phenotypes., NIH R01 (2023). Co-I and Thrust Lead (with PI Dr. Chin-long Lin at UIowa).
Improving Adversarial Robustness of AI for Autonomous Driving, GM Gift Funding (2022). Sole PI.
FAI: Advancing Optimization for Threshold-Agnostic Fair AI Systems, NSF-Amazon Joint Fair AI Program (2022-2025). Lead PI (with Qihang Lin from UIowa, Mingxuan Sun from LSU).
Concurrent allocation and planning for large-scale multi-robot systems, Amazon Research Award (2022-2023). Co-PI (with PI Venanzio Cichella from UIowa).
Collaborative Research: RI: Small: Robust Deep Learning with Big Imbalanced Data, NSF RI Core Program (2021-2024). Lead PI (with Yiming Ying from UAlbany).
CAREER: Advancing Constrained and Non-Convex Learning, NSF Early Career Development Program (2019-2024). Sole PI. Details
Collaborative Research: Online Data Stream Fusion and Deep Learning for Virtual Meter in Smart Power Distribution Systems, NSF EPCN-Energy-Power-Control-Networks Program (2019-2022). Site PI (Collaborative Proposal with PIs from WSU).
Efficient Algorithms for Training GAN, Tencent Faculty Award (2019-2020). Sole PI.
More robust training of deep neural networks, Alibaba Gift Funding (2019-2021). Sole PI.
SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: A Framework for Optimizing Hearing Aids In Situ Based on Patient Feedback, Auditory Context, and Audiologist Input, NSF Smart and Connected Health Program (2019-2022). Co-PI (with PI Octav Chipara).
New Algorithms of Online Machine Learning for Big Data, NSF BIGDATA Program (2015-2018). PI (with Co-PI Padmini Srinivasa). Details
Scaling up Distance Metric Learning for Large-scale Ultrahigh-dimensional Data, NSF CRII Program (2015-2017). Sole PI. Details
Deep Learning for Fine-grained Image Classification, Gift Funding from NEC Labs America (2014-2015). Sole PI.

Zhisuai Guo PhD Student (Fall'18 -) Texas A&M University	Quanqi Hu PhD Student (Fall'20 -) Texas A&M University	Bokun Wang PhD Student (Fall'21 -) Texas A&M University	Xiyuan Wei PhD Student (Fall'22 -) Texas A&M University	Ryan King (Co-advising) PhD Student (Fall'20 -) Texas A&M University	Gang Li PhD Student (Fall'23 -) Texas A&M University
Qi Qi PhD Student (Fall'18 -) University of Iowa	Yao Yao PhD Student (Fall'20 -) University of Iowa	Wendi Yu PhD (Fall'2023-) Texas A&M University	Siqi Guo PhD (Fall'2023-) Texas A&M University	Xinyu Chen PhD (Fall'2023-) Texas A&M University

Zhuoning Yuan PhD (2023, UIowa) ML Scientist at Netflix	Dixian Zhu PhD (2023, UIowa) Postdoc at Stanford	Mingrui Liu PhD (2020, UIowa) Assistant Professor at GMU	Yi Xu PhD (2019, UIowa) Assoc. Prof. at DUT China
Xiaoxuan Zhang PhD (2018, UIowa) Ancestry Inc.	Zhe Li PhD (2018, UIowa) Apple Inc.	Yongjian Zhong PhD Student (2021 - 22) University of Iowa	Yan Yan Postdoc (2018-2020) Assistant Professor at WUS

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