Changye Li’s Homepage

I’m Changye Li, a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington, under Prof. Trevor Cohen. My research interests include better adapting and developing natural language processing (NLP) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) models with biomedical/clinical and behavioral data. I recently obtained my Ph.D. in Health Informatics from the University of Minnesota, where I was very fortunate to be advised by Professor Serguei Pakhomov.

You can find my CV here.

What’s New

• 06/2025: Our paper, Mitigating Confounding in Speech-Based Dementia Detection through Weight Masking, is accepted by ACL 2025! preprint code
• 03/2025: Our paper, Bigger But Not Better: Small Neural Language Models Outperform Large Language Models in Detection of Thought Disorder, is accepted by the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, co-located at NAACL 2025! preprint code
• 03/2025: Our paper ” Is There Anything Else?’’: Examining Administrator Influence on Linguistic Features from the Cookie Theft Picture Description Cognitive Test, is accepted by The 14th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, co-located at NAACL 2025! preprint code