I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer & Information Science Department at the University of Delaware. I work under the advice of Prof. Xi Peng in the DeepREAL Lab.
My research interest includes Explainable Machine Learning, Vision-Language Models, Scientific Machine Learning, and Out-of-distribution Generalization. I have published papers at the top-tier AI/ML conferences, such as NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, etc.
📝 Publications
NeurIPS 2024
ECCV 2024 Strong Double Blind
DEAL: Disentangle and Localize Concept-level Explanations for VLMs
Tang Li, Mengmeng Ma, and Xi Peng
- In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024. (Strong Double Blind, acceptance rate 4.5%)
ICML 2024
CVPR 2023
NeurIPSW 2021 Best Paper Award
Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Urbanization
Tang Li, Jing Gao, and Xi Peng
- In Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshops on Machine Learning in Public Health (MLPH), 2021. (Best Paper Award)
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2024.10 Department Travel Award for Outstanding Conference Publications, University of Delaware.
- 2024.09 Strong Double Blind, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
- 2024.08 Department Travel Award for Outstanding Conference Publications, University of Delaware.
- 2024.07 $5,000 API credit from the OpenAI Researcher Access Program.
- 2024.05 Distinguished Graduate Student Award 2024, Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware.
- 2023.03 Department Travel Award for Outstanding Conference Publications, University of Delaware.
- 2022.05 Distinguished Graduate Student Award 2022, Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware.
- 2021.12 Best Paper Award, MLPH Workshop, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
📖 Educations
- 2020.08 - present, Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
- 2018.08 - 2020.05, Master in Computer Science, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA.
- 2013.09 - 2017.06, B.Eng. in Software Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
💬 Invited Talks
- 2024.09, the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024. | [video]
- 2023.05, the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. | [video]
- 2021.12, MLPH Workshop, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021. | [video]
💻 Professional Services
Conference and Journal Reviewer
- Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023-2024.
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023-2025.
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2022.
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025.
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2024.
- Remote Sensing (RS), 2022.
DSI Fellow
- 2022.03 - present, University of Delaware Data Science Institute (DSI), USA.
👨🏫 Teaching
- CISC 484 (Introduction to Machine Learning), Teaching Assistant, Fall2022.
- CISC 220 (Data Structure), Teaching Assistant, Fall2023, Spring2024.
- CISC 108 (Introduction to Computer Science), Teaching Assistant, Fall2020, Spring2021, Fall2021.
- CISC 181 (Introduction to Computer Science II), Teaching Assistant, Spring2022, Spring2023.