Xiaodong Li

Associate professor in the Statistics Department at UC Davis.

Affiliations: Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics(GGAM) and Graduate Group in Biostatistics(GGB)

Research interests: statistical machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, mathematical signal processing, optimization.

Current Students:

• Chau Tran (Stat/Davis)

Former Students:

• Zhentao Li (Ph.D 2026, now at TikTok)
• Xiaohan Hu (Ph.D 2025, now at CATL)
• Xingmei Lou (Ph.D 2022, now at Google)
• Yucheng Liu (Ph.D 2022, now at Alibaba)
• Ji Chen (Ph.D, 2020, now at TikTok)

Visiting Students:

• Dekai Liu (2017 - 2018)
• Yijun Pan (2016 - 2017)

Contact

4232 Math Sciences Bldg, 399 Crocker Lane, Davis, CA, 95616

Email: xdgli AT ucdavis DOT edu