LIU Boxiang

Asst Prof LIU Boxiang holds the position of Assistant Professor and NUS Presidential Young Professorship at the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), within the Faculty of Science. His research focuses on integrating multi-omics approaches with computational methods to study complex diseases such as coronary artery disease and age-related macular degeneration. He specializes in developing statistical and machine learning tools for genomic analysis, including eQTL mapping and deep learning architectures for gene expression regulation.

Education: BA in Biophysics (Illinois Wesleyan University), MS and PhD in Bioinformatics (Stanford University). He contributed to the GTEx consortium and is part of the Asian Immune Diversity Atlas (AIDA) initiative. His lab develops methods like ANTseq for ancestry determination and scPrediXcan for cell-type-specific transcriptome studies.

Research Interests: Functional genomics, eQTL analysis, deep learning in biomedicine, and computational tools for omics data integration. His work bridges disciplines such as natural language processing and computer vision with biological questions.

Scientific Awards: NUS Presidential Young Professorship (2021). His lab's innovations include ParaMed, a biomedical translation dataset, and LinearDesign for optimized mRNA stability.

Advising and Grants: Leads the Liu Lab (boxiangliulab.com), focusing on single-cell genomics, mitochondrial dynamics, and computational biomedicine. Collaborates on projects like the RESET cohort study for cardiovascular disease prevention.