Wasila Dahdul

Researcher, University of California, Irvine

Joined

November 2022

Names

Wasila Dahdul (Preferred)

Wasila M Dahdul

Wasila M. Dahdul

Emails

****@uci.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

University of California, Irvine (uci.edu)

2020 – 2026

Researcher

Biology, University of South Dakota (usd.edu)

2011 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Paula Mabee

2007 – 2010

PhD Advisor

John Lundberg

2000 – 2007

Expertise

bio-ontologies

evolutionary biology

Present

bio-ontologies

biology

Present

Publications

Hierarchical Conditioning of Diffusion Models Using Tree-of-Life for Studying Species Evolution
Mridul Khurana, Arka Daw, M. Maruf, Josef Uyeda, Wasila Dahdul, Caleb Patrick Charpentier, Yasin Bakis, Henry Bart, Paula Mabee, Hilmar Lapp, James Balhoff, Wei-Lun Chao, Charles V. Stewart, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Anuj Karpatne
- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop Imageomics
- Readers: Everyone
BioCLIP 2: Emergent Properties from Scaling Hierarchical Contrastive Learning
Jianyang Gu, Samuel Stevens, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Matthew J Thompson, Net Zhang, Jiaman Wu, Andrei Kopanev, Zheda Mai, Alexander E. White, James Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, Daniel Rubenstein, Hilmar Lapp, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Wei-Lun Chao, Yu Su
- NeurIPS 2025 2nd Workshop FM4LS Poster
- Readers: Everyone
BioCLIP 2: Emergent Properties from Scaling Hierarchical Contrastive Learning
Jianyang Gu, Samuel Stevens, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Matthew J Thompson, Net Zhang, Jiaman Wu, Andrei Kopanev, Zheda Mai, Alexander E. White, James Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, Daniel Rubenstein, Hilmar Lapp, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Wei-Lun Chao, Yu Su
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Hierarchical Conditioning of Diffusion Models Using Tree-of-Life for Studying Species Evolution
Mridul Khurana, Arka Daw, M. Maruf, Josef Uyeda, Wasila M Dahdul, Caleb Patrick Charpentier, Yasin Bakis, Henry Bart, Paula Mabee, Hilmar Lapp, James Balhoff, Wei-Lun Chao, Charles Stewart, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Anuj Karpatne
- ECCV 2024
- Readers: Everyone
What Do You See in Common? Learning Hierarchical Prototypes over Tree-of-Life to Discover Evolutionary Traits
Harish Babu Manogaran, M. Maruf, Arka Daw, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Caleb Patrick Charpentier, Josef Uyeda, Wasila M Dahdul, Matthew J Thompson, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Kaiya L Provost, Wei-Lun Chao, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Paula Mabee, Hilmar Lapp, Anuj Karpatne
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images
M. Maruf, Arka Daw, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Harish Babu Manogaran, Abhilash Neog, Medha Sawhney, Mridul Khurana, James Balhoff, Yasin Bakis, Bahadir Altintas, Matthew J Thompson, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Josef Uyeda, Hilmar Lapp, Henry Bart, Paula Mabee, Yu Su, Wei-Lun Chao, Charles Stewart, Tanya Berger-Wolf et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
What Do You See in Common? Learning Hierarchical Prototypes over Tree-of-Life to Discover Evolutionary Traits
Harish Babu Manogaran, M. Maruf, Arka Daw, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Caleb Patrick Charpentier, Josef Uyeda, Wasila M Dahdul, Matthew J Thompson, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Kaiya L Provost, Paula Mabee, Hilmar Lapp, Anuj Karpatne
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2024
- Readers: Everyone
BioCLIP: A Vision Foundation Model for the Tree of Life
Samuel Stevens, Jiaman Wu, Matthew J Thompson, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Chan Hee Song, David Edward Carlyn, Li Dong, Wasila M Dahdul, Charles Stewart, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Wei-Lun Chao, Yu Su
- ICLR 2024 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Discovering Novel Biological Traits From Images Using Phylogeny-Guided Neural Networks
Mohannad Elhamod, Mridul Khurana, Harish Babu Manogaran, Josef C. Uyeda, Meghan A. Balk, Wasila M. Dahdul, Yasin Bakis, Henry L. Bart Jr., Paula M. Mabee, Hilmar Lapp, James P. Balhoff, Caleb Charpentier, David Carlyn, Wei-Lun Chao, Charles V. Stewart, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf, Anuj Karpatne
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 27 Sept 2023
- KDD 2023
- Readers: Everyone
BIOCLIP: A Vision Foundation Model for the Tree of Life
Samuel Stevens, Jiaman Wu, Matthew J. Thompson, Elizabeth G. Campolongo, Chan Hee Song, David Edward Carlyn, Li Dong, Wasila M. Dahdul, Charles V. Stewart, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf, Wei-Lun Chao, Yu Su
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 22 Jan 2024
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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