About Me

Introduction

My name is Jimeng Shi, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Florida International University, fortunately advised by Prof. Giri Narasimhan. My research focus locates at developing robust and explainable AI tools to address real-world problems in Environmental Science, Climate Science and Earth Science. Recently, I have been studying Large Language Models and Multi-modal learning. My work is being funded by NSF I-GUIDE.

Research Interests

• (Generative) AI for Science
• Environmental Science: flood prediction (FloodGTN), flood mitigation (FIDLAr), air quality prediction (AIR), physics-informed neural network (PINN for Shallow Water Equations)
• Climate Science: diffusion model for weather prediction (CoDiCast), RAG for precipitation nowcast (coming soon)
• Bioinformatics: vision transformer for protein binding (PIsToN), evaluating protein docking models (Survey)
• Explainable AI
• Time Series: explanations with information bottleneck (TimeX++), explanations using LIME (ReFine, FIDLAr), explainations using GradCAM (ParaRCNN)

Selected Publications

• CoDiCast: Conditional Diffusion Model for Weather Prediction with Uncertainty Quantification.
  Jimeng Shi, Bowen Jin, Jiawei Han, Giri Narasimhan.
  (Under review)
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• ReFine: Boosting Time Series Prediction Under Extreme Events by Reweighting and Fine-tuning.
  Jimeng Shi, Azam Shirali, Giri Narasimhan.
  2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (To appear)
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• The Power of Explainability in Forecast-Informed Deep Learning Models for Flood Mitigation.
  Jimeng Shi, Vitalii Stebliankin, Giri Narasimhan.
  NeurIPS 2023 workshop on Climate Change AI (Poster).
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• Graph Transformer Network for Flood Forecasting with Heterogeneous Covariates.
  Jimeng Shi, Vitalii Stebliankin, Zhaonan Wang, Shaowen Wang, Giri Narasimhan.
  NSF I-GUIDE Forum in New York, 2023 (Oral).
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• Explainable Parallel RCNN with Novel Feature Representation for Time Series Forecasting.
  Jimeng Shi, Rukmangadh Myana, Vitalii Stebliankin, Azam Shirali, Giri Narasimhan.
  ECML-PKDD 2023 workshop on Advanced Analytics and Learning on Temporal Data (Oral).
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• Deep Learning Models for Water Level Prediction in South Florida.
  Jimeng Shi^*, Zeda Yin^*, Rukmangadh Myana, Arturo Leon, Jayantha Obeysekera, Giri Narasimhan.
  Journal of water resources planning and management (Under review).
  Part of work was presented at the I-GUIDE All-Hands Meeting, Chicago in 2022.
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Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science - Florida International University (2021 - 2025).
• M.S. Computer Science - Florida International University (2019 - 2021).
• B.S. Vehicle Engineering - Tianjin University of Science & Technology (2014 - 2018).

Experience

• Florida International University - Research Assistant
• During Ph.D., Working with Prof. Giri Narasimhan on the development and application of Machine Learning algorithms. (2021.08 - Now)
• During Master's Degree, I had been workeing with Prof. Cheng-Xian Lin on numeric analysis and simulation on solar enginerring using Matlab. (2019.01 - 2020.06)
• Columbia University - Research Fellow
• Worked at NSF LEAP on generative AI for climate emulation while mentoring two REU students. (2024.05 - 2024.08)
• Lid Vizion - Machine Learning Engineer (Internship)
• Worked at Lid Vizion Company at Miami, Florida, USA. I was in charge of applying Yolo-v4 model to detect objects (paper or cardboard) on the river. (2020.09 - 2020.12)

Professional Services

• Committee Member
• International Conference on Deep Learning Technologies (ICDLT) (2023, 2024)
• World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) (2022, 2023, 2024)
• Paper Reviewer
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
• SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2024
• NeurIPS Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, 2024
• ICLR Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning 2024
• International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2023
• European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) 2023, 2024
• 6th International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering (CSAE) 2022
• Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 2021, 2022.
• ICPC Volunteer
• Helped to organize the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Southeast USA Regional Contest at Florida International University. (2022, 2023, 2024)