Dr. Xiaoxiao Li


Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Faculty of Applied Science

Core Faculty

Xiaoxiao Li is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Before joining UBC, Dr. Li was a Postdoc Research Fellow in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. Dr. Li obtained her PhD degree from Yale University in 2020. Dr. Li received her bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University in 2015. In the recent few years, Dr. Li has over 40 papers published in leading machine learning conferences and journals, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, MICCAI, IPMI, BMVC, AAAI, and Medical Image Analysis. Her work has been recognized with the OHBM Merit Abstract Award, the MLMI Best Paper Award, and the DART Best Paper Award. Dr. Li has also organized a number of workshops on the topic of machine learning and healthcare. She is the Associate Editor of Frontiers in NeuroImaging and serves the president of Women in MICCAI. Dr. Li’s research interests range across the interdisciplinary fields of deep learning and biomedical data analysis, aiming to improve the trustworthiness of AI systems for healthcare.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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