Li Liao

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

S17 Office Hours: Appointments only.

Office: 424 Smith Hall

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

Teaching

• CISC 260 Machine Organization and Assembly Language (see class site on Sakai)
• CISC 436/636 Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (F16)
• BINF 644 Bioinformatics (see class site on Sakai)

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
• American Journal of Bioinformatics
• World Journal of Biological Chemistry
• Int'l Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine (IJFIPM)
• Journal of Biometrics and its applications
• Scholarena Journal of Genetics
Program Committee
• IEEE ICMLA17 16th IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications. December 18-21, 2017 | Cancun, Mexico.
• BIBM 2017 The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), November 13-18, 2017, Kansan City, MO, USA.
• CISP-BMEI 2017 10th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (CISP-BMEI 2017; Shanghai, China, 14-16 October 2017.
• IWBBIO 2017 International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering" (IWBBIO 2017), Granada (Spain), April, 2017
• ICBBT2017 The 9th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology, May 14-16, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.
• SCAI2017 The 5th International Conference on Smart Computing and Artificial Intelligence, July 9-13, 2017, Hamamatsu, Japan.
• I-SPAN 2017 The 14th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN 2017), 21-23 June 2017, Exeter, England.
• ICMLC 2017 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing. February 24-26, 2017 in Singapore.