Shiying Li

Shiying Li

Ph.D. in Mathematics

About Me

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).

Before joining UNL, I was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, working with Prof. Caroline Moosmueller, who leads the GEOMETRIC DATA ANALYSIS @ UNC group. My research is partially supported by NSF award DMS–2410140.

Research Interests

Applied optimal transport, Mathematical data science, Signal/image analysis, Approximation theory (splines), Collocation methods

Recent Conferences and Activities

  1. 2025 Women in Science of Data and Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill, Aug 4-8, 2025. Caroline and Shiying will lead the project on “Optimal transport in cell biology”.
  2. NSF CompMath Meeting 2025, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 8-9, 2025.
  3. Data Science and Statistics seminar at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Apr 24 4:30pm EST., 2025. Shiying will give a presentation.
  4. Midwest Numerical Analysis Day 2025, Univeristy of Nebraska - Lincoln, Apr 5-6, 2025. Co-organized with George Avalos, Huijing Du, and Petronela Radu.
  5. Statistics and Optimal Transport Workshop, Columbia University, Mar 27-28, 2025.
  6. Online presentation at the Applied Algebraic Topology Research Network (AATRN) online Seminar, Mar 19, 2025.
  7. Continuum Mechanics Seminar at UNL, Mar 13 2:30pm CST, 2025. Shiying will give a presentation.
  8. Mathematics Landscapes seminar at UNL, Feb 27 3:30pm CST, 2025. Shiying will give a presentation.
  9. Mathematics Department Colloquium at UNL, Feb 21 4pm CST., 2025. Shiying will give a presentation.
  10. Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), AMS Special Session on Modeling and Optimization on Graph-Structured Data, Seattle, WA, Jan 8-11, 2025. In-person presentation.
  11. Zoom talk at JHU AMS Postdoc Seminar, John Hopkins University, Nov 15 12:30pm Est, 2024.
  12. Zoom talk at FRG Informal Talk Series, UNC-Chapel Hill, Nov 15 3pm Est, 2024.
  13. SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS24), Atlanta, GA, Oct 21-25, 2024.
  14. The NSF Computational Mathematics PI Meeting 2024, Seattle, WA, July 15-16, 2024.
  15. 2024 MPS Workshop for New Investigators, Alexandria, VA, July 7-9, 2024.
  16. MRC Conference Week 2: Mathematics of Adversarial, Interpretable, and Explainable AI at Java Center, NY, June 23-29, 2024.
  17. SIAM IS24, Atlanta, Georgia, May 28-31, 2024.
  18. Algorithms & PDE Summer School and Workshop, San Marcos & Austin, TX, May 13-19, 2024.