Dr. Gen Li is interested in developing statistical methods for modern data types such as functional data, multi-source data, and network data, arising in various biomedical fields. He is currently working on data integration from multiple platforms, and is developing new methods for dimension reduction, data visualization, prediction and others. He is a consortium member of the NIH Common Fund program Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx), and contributes to the development of statistical methods for joint eQTL analysis in multiple tissues.