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

• 05/2026: Our paper, Reading Between the Lines: Combining Pause Dynamics and Semantic Coherence for Automated Assessment of Thought Disorder, is accepted by Neuropsychologia. paper
• 04/2026: Our paper, “Newspaper Eat” Means “Not Tasty”: A Taxonomy and Benchmark for Coded Language in Real-World Chinese Online Reviews, is accepted by ACL 2026. preprint
• 01/2026: Our paper, Cognitive data harmonization in the ADRC Network and beyond—Past, present, and future, is accepted by Alzheimer’s Dementia. paper
• 06/2025: Our paper, Mitigating Confounding in Speech-Based Dementia Detection through Weight Masking, is accepted by ACL 2025. preprint code