Wenxian Shi

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I am a Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL, advised by Prof. Regina Barzilay. Before MIT, I worked at ByteDance AI Lab with Hao Zhou and Lei Li. I earned my master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Peking University.

My research focuses on applying machine learning to biological problems, with a particular interest in modeling protein evolution.

selected publications

  1. Predicting sub-population specific viral evolution
    Wenxian Shi, Menghua Wu, and Regina Barzilay
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21518, 2024
  2. VaxSeer: Selecting influenza vaccine strains through evolutionary and antigenicity models
    Wenxian Shi, Jeremy Wohlwend, Menghua Wu, and Regina Barzilay
    2024
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  3. Follow your path: a progressive method for knowledge distillation
    Wenxian Shi*, Yuxuan Song*, Hao Zhou, Bohan Li, and Lei Li
    In ECML PKDD, 2021
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  4. Dispersed exponential family mixture vaes for interpretable text generation
    Wenxian Shi, Hao Zhou, Ning Miao, and Lei Li
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
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