Dr. Jinling Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology housed in both College of Public Health and Health Professions and College of Medicine at the University of Florida (UF). Before joining UF, she was a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering (EMSE) and Department of Biological Sciences at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). Dr. Liu holds a Ph.D degree in Biology from the Pennsylvania State University as well as an MS degree in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Liu also completed a National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics. She has extensive experience in big data analytics, systems biology, probabilistic graphical models, causal inference and machine learning.
Dr. Liu's research interests lie in modeling the rapidly-accumulating big data (e.g., muti-omics) in biology and medicine for precision medicine via a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques – one of her projects along these lines has been recently funded by a prestigious NIH Career Development Award for young investigators. She is committed to advancing precision medicine through her work. She is also collaborating with researchers in other domains for data analytics and decision making.
Dr. Liu is actively recruiting motivated PhD students for fully-funded graduate research assistantships (GRA) and Postdocs at the current NIH stipend level in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Florida (see the OPENING tab). Check out her CV and the Hiring Ad .
September 1, 2023: Dr. Liu joined the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Florida as a tenure-track assistant professor from Missouri S&T. Featured in "PLEASED TO WELCOME NEW FACULTY" on the department homepage.
April 7, 2023: Dr. Liu was awarded a NIH R03 grant from NHLBI for her project titled as "Investigation and deployment of novel Bayesian inference algorithms in CAVATICA for identifying genomic variants underlying congenital heart defects in Down syndrome individuals". This award provides two years' funding support for a total of $308,927.
November 3, 2022: News release: "Missouri S&T researcher wins NIH career development award to investigate connection between race and hypertension".
August 28, 2022: Dr. Liu has received the NIH career development (K01) award from NHLBI for her project titled as "A novel framework for estimating personalized genomic variants of hypertension for precision medicine". She is the first researcher at Missouri S&T to receive this prestigious and highly-competitive K award. This award provides five years' funding support for a total of $721,025.
August 23, 2022: Welcome Mr. Prithbey Dey to join the group as a Kummer I&E Doctoral Fellow! Congratulations for such a competitive fellowship!
August 31, 2021: Welcome Ms. Yasaman J. Soofi to join the group as a PhD student!
August 3, 2020: Dr. Liu has been named as an NHLBI BioData Catalyst Fellow! She was recognized for her project titled, “Apply and evaluate an instance-specific causal machine learning framework for identifying the causative genomic variants of cardiovascular diseases.” https://biodatacatalyst.nhlbi.nih.gov/fellows/cohort2
August 24, 2020: Welcome Mr. Asad Rahman to join the group as a PhD student!