Keren Li

Keren Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2018), an MS in Mathematics from Louisiana State University (2004), and a BA in Mathematics from Nankai University (2001). Before joining UAB in 2022, she served as an Associate Scientist at UAB's Informatics Institute (2023–2024) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University’s NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology and Department of Statistics and Data Science (2018–2022).

Her research focuses on distributed learning, federated learning, deep learning, bioinformatics, and financial mathematics. Key projects include developing tools like DNAcycP (predicting DNA cyclizability) and RiboDiPA (analyzing ribosome profiling data). She also explores statistical methods for optimal design and generalized linear models.

Her work bridges computational methods and real-world applications, with contributions to genomics, energy networks, and financial modeling. Her lab (klilab) emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative algorithm development.