Li Liao

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

S11 Office Hours: 3:30PM-4:30PM, Mondays 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 (S12)
• SIG Bioinformatics Seminar Series (S12)

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)
• Int'l Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine (IJFIPM)
Program Committee
• ACM-BCB11 The ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB), August 1-3, 2011 at Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• SERA 2011 The 9th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA2011) August 10-12, 2011, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• DTMBIO 2011 ACM Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO 11), October24, 2011, Glasgow, UK.
• ICMLA11 The Tenth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2011) December 18-21, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• BIBM'11 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, 12-15 November 2011, Atlanta, GA, USA.