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)

S19 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

• CISC260 Machine Organization and Assembly Language
• 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
• ICMLA'19 18th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), December 16-19, 2019, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
• ICIBM'19 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2019) June 9-11, 2019, Columbus, OH, USA.
• IWBBIO'19 The 7th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, May 8th-10th, Granada, Spain.
• ICBBT 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology, May 29-31, 2019, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ICBDM 2nd International Conference on Big Data Management, Feb 22-24, 2019, Zhuhai, China.
• ICMLC 2019 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing Zhuhai, China, February 22-24, 2019.