Support

Research in my group has been supported generously through the following grants to Meng Li (PI or co-PI):

  • Ken Kennedy Institute AI, Data, and Computing Seed Funding Initiative: “Multimodel AI framework for biomarker discovery of Pancreatic Cancer”
  • IITK – Rice University Strategic Collaboration Awards: “Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems: Bayesian Spatiotemporal Modeling for Predicting Sea Surface Temperature Dynamics and Identifying Hotspots in the Red Sea”
  • Rice University and Houston Methodist Seed Grant Program in Cardiovascular Bioengineering: “Identifying Novel Parameter in Echocardiography to Assess Right Ventricular Function Using Machine Learning”
  • National Science Foundation, DMS/NIGMS Initiative: “DMS/NIGMS 2: Scalable Bayesian Inference with Applications to Phylogenetics”
  • Rice University and Houston Methodist Seed Grant Program: “Machine-learning analysis of right ventricular shape for characterization of patients with functional tricuspid regurgitation”
  • Rice University Faculty Initiative Funds: “Personalized Medicine via IAS: A new Integrative, Adaptive, and Sustainable scoring system to harness patient heterogeneity”
  • Rice University Faculty Initiative Funds: “Identifying the environmental drivers of tropical wildlife diversity”
  • National Science Foundation: “Semiparametric Methods for Complex Data”
  • Baylor College of Medicine DeBakey Department of Surgery INSTINCT and Rice ENRICH Seed Grant Program: “Pathogenesis of primary graft dysfunction in lung transplantation: Identifying molecular and cellular biomarkers and causal effect of sex”
  • National Science Foundation: “CC* Compute: Interactive Data Analysis Platform”
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) the BRAIN Initiative: “RAVE: A New Open Software Tool for Analysis and Visualization of Electrocorticography Data” (PI: Michael Beauchamp, Baylor College of Medicine; Role: subcontract PI )
  • QuesTek Innovations LLC: “Advanced Bayesian Analysis in Materials Informatics with Application to CALPHAD Databases”
  • ORAU, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award: “Probabilistic Modeling of Brain Connectome”
  • Baylor College of Medicine: “Neural Substrates of Optimal Multisensory Integration”
  • The Department of Statistics, Rice University: Start-up package.