For a full list of my publications, please see my CV.
* indicates shared first authorship. Names are listed alphabetically.
Eadie, G., and Li, D.*, (2026) “Statistical Challenges in the Sky: Distribution Functions, Data, and Inference for Stellar Systems”, Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application (Accepted).
Cook, A., Li, D., Eadie, G., Stenning, D., Scholz, P., Bingham, D., Craiu, R., Gaensler, B., Masui, K., Pleunis, Z., Herrera-Martin, A., Joseph, R., Pandhi, A., Pearlman, A. (2025). “K-Contact Distance for Noisy Nonhomogeneous Spatial Point Data with Application to Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources.” The Annals of Applied Statistics, 20 (2), 1586-1604. Astrostatistics Student Paper Competition Winner, Joint Statistical Meeting 2025, Nashville, TN [Journal Link][arXiv Link]
Li, D.*, Zhang, Z.* (2025). “Bayesian Optimization Sequential Surrogate (BOSS) Algorithm: Fast Bayesian Inference for a Broad Class of Bayesian Hierarchical Models.” Submitted to Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 213, 108253. [Journal Link][arXiv Link]
Li, D., Liu, Q., Eadie, G., Abraham, R., Marleau, F., Harris, W., Van Dokkum, P., Romanowsky, A., Danieli, S., Brown, P., Stringer, A. (2025). Candidate Dark Galaxy-2: Validation and Analysis of an Almost Dark Galaxy in the Perseus Cluster." American Astronomical Society Featured Article (AAS Nova), The Astrophysical Journal Letters 986, L18. [Journal Link]
Li, D., Eadie, G., Brown, P., Harris, W., Abraham, R., Van Dokkum, P., Janssens, S., Berek, S., Danieli, S., Romanowsky, A., Speagle, J. (2025). “Discovery of Two Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies with Unusually Bright Globular Cluster Luminosity Functions via a Mark-Dependently Thinned Point Process (MATHPOP).” The Astrophysical Journal 984 147. Astrostatistics Student Paper Competition Finalist, Joint Statistical Meeting 2025, Nashville, TN [Journal Link]
Li, D., Stringer, A., Brown, P., Eadie, G., Abraham, R. (2025). “Poisson Cluster Process for Detecting Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies.” The Annals of Applied Statistics, 19 (1): 261-285. [Journal Link]
Li, D., Eadie, G., Abraham, R., Brown, P., Harris, W., Janssens, S., Romanowsky, A., Van Dokkum, P., Danieli, S. (2022). “Light from the darkness: Detecting ultra-diffuse galaxies in the perseus cluster through over-densities of globular clusters with a log-Gaussian Cox process.” The Astrophysical Journal 935 3. Astrostatistics Student Paper Competition Finalist, Joint Statistical Meeting 2023, Toronto [Journal Link]
Li, D., Barmby, P. (2021). “Gibbs point process model for young star clusters in M33.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501 3. [Journal Link][arXiv Link]
Li, D., (2026) “Robust Surrogate-based Bayesian Inference via Sampling-based Adaptive Active Learning (SALE)”, Submitted to Journal of Machine Learning Research. [arXiv Link]
Li. D.,(2026). “No Shortcuts to Learning a Posterior: Fundamental Limits of Posterior-Focused Sequential Design.”
Li. D.,(2026). “Risk-Calibrated Stopping for Sequential Bayesian Inference under Gaussian Process Surrogate”
Li. D.*, Liu, Z.*, and Zhang, Z.* (2026). “Approximate Bayesian Inference via Bayesian Optimization: Methods, Theory, and Applications.”
Non-Peer Reviewed
Van Dokkum, P., Li, D., Abraham, R., Danieli, S., Eadie, G., Harris, W., Romanowsky, A. (2024). “Deep HST/UVIS imaging of the candidate dark galaxy CDG-1.” Res. Notes AAS 8 135 (Non-Peer Reviewed). [Journal Link]