Li Liao

Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences
Affiliated Faculty, Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Affiliated Faculty, Quantitative Biology
Ph.D., Peking University (1992)

S13 Office Hours: 1:30AM-2:30PM, Wednesdays and Fridays

Office: 424 Smith Hall

Postal Address
University of Delaware                                 Phone: 302-831-3500
101 Smith Hall                                             Fax: 302-831-8458
Newark, DE 19716                                   

Teaching

• CISC320 Intro to Algorithms (S13)
• SIG Bioinformatics Seminar Series (S13)

Research (Liao Research Lab) (Publications)

My research interests are in bioinformatics. I am particularly interested in developing statistical and machine learning methods that are effective, expressive and interpretable, via incorporating domain specific knowledge of biological systems.

The projects include:


1. Homology identification, protein family classification, and clustering. (Supported by DuPont Science and Engineering Award)
2. Molecular sequence modelling and analysis. (Supported by the NIH COBRE)
3. Comparative genomics and metabolic pathway evolution.
4. Pattern analysis for RNAi. (Supported by UDRF)
5. Sequence assembly of 454 and SBS data. (Supported by NSF)

Servers developed:

• TMModel: Transmembrane protein identification and topology prediction.
• QC-COMP: Quasi consensus comparison of profile Hidden Markov models for protein families.
• iMPC: Comparison of bacterial species based on metabolic pathway components

Service

Editorial Board
• The Open Systems Biology Journal (OSBJ at http://www.bentham.org/open/tosysbj)
• Int'l Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine (IJFIPM)
Program Committee
• BIBM'13 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, 18-21 December, 2013, Shanghai, China.
• Biomedical Computing 2013 2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Computint, September 8-14, 2013, Washington, D.C., USA
• ICIBM'13International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2013) August 11-13, 2013, Nashville, TN, USA
• SERA 2013 The 11th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA2013) August 7-9, 2013, Prague, Czech