I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Delaware, fortunate to be advised by Professor Xi Peng. My career goal is to advance the robustness and explainability of Machine Learning. Currently, my focus is on Multimodal Learning, particularly in addressing missing modalities; Federated Learning, where I develop methods for out-of-federation generalization; and Explainable Machine Learning, with an emphasis on rationale prediction.
“Why Is There a Tumor?”: Safeguarding Tumor Segmentation and Detection With Trustworthy Rationales
Mengmeng Ma, Tang Li, Yunxiang Peng, Lu Lin, Volkan Beylergil, Binsheng Zhao, Oguz Akin, Xi Peng.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
Beyond Accuracy: Ensuring Correct Predictions with Correct Rationales
Tang Li, Mengmeng Ma, Xi Peng.
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
DEAL: Disentangle and Localize Concept-level Explanations for VLMs
Tang Li, Mengmeng Ma, Xi Peng.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
Beyond the Federation: Topology-aware Federated Learning for Generalization to Unseen Clients
Mengmeng Ma, Tang Li, Xi Peng.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024.
Are Data-driven Explanations Robust Against Out-of-distribution Data?
Tang Li, Fengchun Qiao, Mengmeng Ma, Xi Peng.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
Are Multimodal Transformers Robust to Missing Modality?
Mengmeng Ma, Jian Ren, Long Zhao, Davide Testuggine, Xi Peng.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.
SMIL: Multimodal Learning with Severely Missing Modality
Mengmeng Ma, Jian Ren, Long Zhao, Sergey Tulyakov, Cathy Wu, Xi Peng.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021.
Conference Reviewer:
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024–2025
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023–2025
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023, 2025
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2024–2025
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2019–2025
Journal Reviewer:
Transactions on Machine Learning Research
ACM Computing Surveys
Neural Networks
Spring 2022: Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Data Mining (CISC 483/683)
Fall 2021: Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Data Mining (CISC 483/683)
Spring 2021: Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Data Mining (CISC 483/683)
Fall 2020: Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Computer Vision (CISC 442/642)
Fall 2020: Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Data Mining (CISC 483/683)
I’m always interested in hearing about opportunities to collaborate or apply research to real-world problems!
Feel free to reach out.
Email: mengma [at] udel (dot) edu
Address: 591 Collaboration Way, FinTech Innovation Hub Suite 416, Newark, DE 19713