Mingzhe Li

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame.

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana, USA

mli33@nd.edu

Mingzhe Li is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in Computing from the University of Utah, advised by Professor Bei Wang Phillips, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and a B.Eng. in Computer Science from Zhejiang University. His research focuses on topological data analysis, scientific visualization, machine learning, and high-performance computing. Email: mli33@nd.edu.

news

Jan 10, 2026 Our paper “Spatiotemporal Detection and Uncertainty Visualization of Atmospheric Blocking Events” is accepted by IEEE PacificVis 2026 TVCG Journal Track!
Oct 21, 2025 I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation “Topological Descriptors for Complex and Scalable Data Analysis: Optimal Transport and Distributed Feature Extraction”!
Aug 14, 2025 I will start my postdoctoral program at the University of Notre Dame in Nov. 2025!
Aug 14, 2025 Two papers “Tracking Low-Level Cloud Systems with Topology” and “Extremely Scalable Distributed Computation of Contour Trees via Pre-Simplification” are accepted by TopoInVis and LDAV, respectively.