Li Liao

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

F19 Office Hours: 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Tuesdays and Thursdays

Office: 424 Smith Hall

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

Teaching

• BINF644 Bioinformatics

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
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics ( TCBB)
• Journal of Biostatistics and Biometric Applications
• Scholarena Journal of Genetics
Program Committee
• IEEE BIBM'20The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2020) will take place in Seoul, S.Korea on December 16-19, 2020.
• ICIBM2020 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2020) August 9-11, 2020, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ICMLC202012th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing will be held in Shenzhen, China on Feb. 15-17, 2020.
• Bioinformatics2020 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, Feburary 24-26, 2020, Valletta, Malta.