About Illidan Lab

At the Intelligent Data Analytics (ILLIDAN) Lab @ University of Michigan, we are at the forefront of advancing data science and AI to tackle some of the most critical real-world challenges, commonly known as AI+X, with a special emphasis on health informatics. Our research is anchored in the vision of Unified Knowledge Integration - an innovative approach that harnesses AI to unify insights from large-scale, noisy, multimodal, and heterogeneous datasets. By seamlessly integrating domain knowledge with novel machine learning and generative AI techniques, we aim to transform various real-world domains, enhance decision making for data science through establishing the closed-loop flow of informatics among key components of human, data, and analytics. In the domain of health informatics, we develop novel tools and systems for improving the understanding, diagnosis, and intervention of diseases, especially Alzheimer’s.

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Opening: ILLIDAN lab is currently looking for motivated Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers on machine learning and AI + Health research. Interested candidates please apply to our PhD in Informatics program following the instructions here and mention me in your application.

Research Highlights

ILLIDAN lab designs scalable, distributed, robust and privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms, creates open source machine learning software, and develops powerful machine learning for applications in health informatics and other scientific areas.

Multi-task and Transfer Learning

Design learning formulations and optimization algorithms to learn multiple related machine learning tasks, performing inductive knowledge transfer among the tasks and improving generalization performance.

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Progression of Alzheimer's Disease

Build machine learning models that understand disease progression and identify signaling biomarkers, from multiple data sources, including medical imaging, genotypes, and other clinical information.

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Drug Repurposing

Develop data-driven molecular fingerprints, molecular generation models, and predictive models for predicting molecular properties and gene regulation, which lead to drug discovery and repurposing.

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ILLIDAN Lab would like to thank support from National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Office of Naval Research, through the following research projects:

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Completed Projects

ILLIDAN Lab would also like to thank Xkool.ai, Didi Chuxing and VeChain Foundation for research gifts, and NVIDIA Corporation for the donation of GPU cards.

Investigator
Jiayu Zhou
Jiayu Zhou   Lab Head, Professor


Areas of Interest: Machine learning, AI + Health
Links: Website, Google Scholar, GitHub


Lab Members
Haobo Zhang
Haobo Zhang   Ph.D. Student, 2022-


Areas of Study: Federated Learning, Privacy-Preserving Learning

Haohao Zhu
Haohao Zhu   Ph.D. student, 2024-


Areas of Study: Large language model, AI+Education

Hoàng Cao Bảo
Hoàng Cao Bảo   B.S. Student, 2021-


Areas of Study: AI+Health, natural language processing

Jiankun Wang
Jiankun Wang   Ph.D. Student, 2023-


Areas of Study: Multi-task learning, large language model

Lingxiao Li
Lingxiao Li   Ph.D. student, 2024-


Areas of Study: Generative model, drug discovery, AI+Health

Ruoqiao Chen
Ruoqiao Chen   Ph.D. Student, 2021- (Co-advise with Dr. Bin Chen)


Areas of Study: Single cell, Bioinformatics

Shuyang Yu
Shuyang Yu   Ph.D. Student, 2020-


Areas of Study: privacy and machine learning

Siqi Liang
Siqi Liang   Ph.D. Student, 2022-


Areas of Study: Federated Learning, Robust Learning
Links: Google Scholar, Github, Homepage

Yijiang Pang
Yijiang Pang   Ph.D. Student, 2021-


Areas of Study: data science, efficient machine learning
Links: Website


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Alumni
Andy Tang   D.O.-Ph.D. Student 2016 - 2021. First employment - Research Scientist at Amplitude
Boyang Liu   Ph.D. Student 2017 - 2022. First employment - Research Scientist at Meta
Han Meng   M.S. student 2022 - 2024, currently Ph.D. student at William Mary
Ikechukwu Uchendu   M.S. Student 2018 - 2020, currently Ph.D. student at Harvard University
Inci Baytas   Ph.D. Student 2015-2019, currently assistant professor at Bogazici University, Turkey
Jianpeng Xu   Ph.D. student - 2016. First employment - Walmart Labs
Junyuan Hong   Ph.D. Student, 2018 - 2021, currently postdoc at UTAusin
Kaixiang Lin   Ph.D. Student 2015 - 2020. First employment - research scientist at Amazon
Mengying Sun   Ph.D. Student 2016 - 2022. First employment - Research Scientist at Meta
Qi Wang   Ph.D. Student 2015 - 2020. First employment - Research Scientist at Meta
Sumyeong Ahn   Postdoc 2023-2024, currently assistant professor at Kentech University
Zhuangdi Zhu   Ph.D. Student 2018 - 2022, currently assistant professor at George Mason University

Friends
Abhi Shukul   High School Research Volunteer since 2020, Okemos High
He Zhu   Consultant since 2018, University of Calgary
Jiahua Chen   Visited in 2018, Master student in UMich
Jun Chen   Visiting since 2017, Ph.D. student in UMich
Laura Danila   Summer Intern in 2019
Lifan Zeng   Lab member since 2018, Undergraduate Student
Lisa Kelly   Volunteered 2018-2019, graduate from MSU
Liyang Xie   Lab member since 2016, M.Sc graduated in 2019
Matthew Dirisio   Professorial Assistant since 2020, MSU
Pranav Shukla   Volunteer since Fall 2021
Shu Wang   Visiting/consultant since 2016, Ph.D. student in Rugters
Sriya Kondabathula   Lab assistant, 2023, M.Sc. Student
Ugo Uchendu   Volunteer since Fall 2021
Xiang Cheng   Visited in 2017 summer, undergrad in Uni. of Glasgow
Recent Preprints
Selected Publications
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