Junhao Liu¶
I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of 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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News
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¶
I am interested in natural language processing, deep generative models, and their applications in computational biology. My current research focuses on:
Deep Generative Models (Diffusion Models, Flow Models, LLMs, etc.) for DNA, RNA, Protein, and Multi-Omics Data, including Single-Cell Sequencing and Spatial Transcriptomics
Target-Driven Biological Representation and Interpretation Learning (e.g. Feature explanation, Feature visualization, etc.)
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
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
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