Jessie Zixin Li

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computational social science and digital humanities · 77% Medical and health informatics · 23%
Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Deep learning architectures and training · 100%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
recurrent neural network
1.012026
BSAN: Behavioral State Attention Network for Modeling Mosquito Host-Seeking Behavior · AAAI 2026
Computational social science and digital humanities
behavioral modeling
1.012026
BSAN: Behavioral State Attention Network for Modeling Mosquito Host-Seeking Behavior · AAAI 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

variational encoder · 2.0mixture of experts · 2.0cross-modal attention · 2.0LSTM · 2.0mixture density networks · 1.0mixture density network · 1.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 BSAN: Behavioral State Attention Network for Modeling Mosquito Host-Seeking Behavior
abstract
Understanding the complex host-seeking behavior of disease vectors such as mosquito is critical for predicting disease transmission and vector control. This behavior arises from a dynamic interplay between multi-modal sensory cues and internal behavioral states, a process challenging traditional ODE frameworks due to its inherent stochasticity and discrete, state-based nature. We introduce the Behavioral State Attention Network (BSAN), a deep learning architecture designed to model the underlying sensorimotor computations of this behavior. BSAN utilizes a recurrent neural network (RNN) with an LSTM core to process temporal sequences, incorporating a variational encoder to capture the randomness of flight paths and a Mixture Density Network (MDN) to predict multi-modal velocity distributions. The architecture explicitly models distinct behavioral states, such as $CO_2$ plume tracking and thermal approach, through a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) framework, and learns to interpretably integrate olfactory, thermal, and visual inputs using a cross-modal attention mechanism. The network generates realistic flight trajectories that exhibit emergent host-seeking behaviors. By providing both trajectory predictions and interpretable behavioral primitives, BSAN serves as a framework for downstream applications in landscape genomics and vector control, enabling the prediction of mosquito population connectivity through environment-specific movement kernels.
Jessie Zixin Li, John M. Marshall
AAAI2