Junhao Liu¶
I am a fourth-year PhD candidate in computer science at the University of California, Irvine, advised by Prof. Jing Zhang. Prior to this, I received my master’s degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. During my time at UCAS, I was a member of SIAT-NLP and was advised by Prof. Min Yang. My bachelor’s degree was obtained from the South China University of Technology.
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May 2025 - 🔥 One position paper on multimodal DNA generative models accepted by ICIP 2025!
May 2025 - 🔥 One paper accepted by KDD 2025 (acceptance rate 18.4%)!
Dec 2024 - Our ACML paper has been selected as the Best Student Paper!!!
Dec 2024 - One paper accepted by AAAI 2025! Thanks to all coauthors!
Sep 2024 - One paper accepted by ACML 2024 (acceptance rate 26%)!
July 2024 - One paper accepted by CIKM 2024!
Research Interests¶
My research interests are natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), deep generative models, and their applications in computational biology. Recently, I have been focusing on the following directions:
🧬 Genomics Language Models: DNA and Cell Foundation Models
⚗️ AI for Science: Deep Generative Models for Biological Data Processing and Scientific Discovery
🧐 Interpretable Learning for Biological Problem: Feature Explanation and Feature Visualization for Single-Cell Data
Honors and Awards¶
UC Irvine CS Department Dean’s Award
UC San Diego ECE Department Fellowship
National Scholarship for Graduate Student
AAAI 2020 Student Scholarship
Third Prize of Byte Cup 2018 IML Contest (Awarded by CAAI and ByteDance)
Professional Service¶
Reviewer for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, ICCV, AISTATS, ACL Rolling Review, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, COLING
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Pattern Recognition, Knowledge-Based Systems, Neurocomputing
Program Committee Member for IEEE AIMHC 2024
Teaching Experience¶
Teaching Assistant, ICS 6D: Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, UC Irvine, Winter 2023
Teaching Assistant, CS 178: Introduction of Machine Learning, UC Irvine, Fall 2022