Principal Investigator

Joyce Tzu-Yu Liu 劉子毓

Joyce is an Associate Professor and Yushan Young Fellow at the Electrical Engineering Department and Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics at National Taiwan University (NTU). In addition, she is affiliated with Master's Program in Smart Medicine and Health Informatics, TIGP Program on Bioinformatics, Global Undergraduate Program in Semiconductors, Data Science Degree Program and Graduate School of Advanced Technology. Prior to her position at NTU, she was the Director of Machine Learning Science at Freenome, with multiple years of industry experiences in the Bay Area from research to product development for building blood-based cancer screening tests. She was a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at the Departments of Mathematics and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department at the University of California, Berkeley. Joyce received her B.S. from the National Taiwan University (2007) and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2013), both in Electrical Engineering.

She is a researcher in machine learning and computational biology. Her research includes statistical learning from high dimensional and small sample size problems, optimization, structured variable selection, density estimation, functional data analysis, transfer learning, multi-task learning, data fusion, neural network and their applications to biomedical data. These research experiences involve analysis of large datasets, e.g., genomic sequencing data, proteomics data, 3D/4D microscopy images, 3D human faces, and time series of electrocardiograms and vital signs.

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, Jan 2013.
M.S., Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, Sep 2007 - May 2009.
B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Sep 2003 - June 2007.

Research Experiences

Associate Professor, National Taiwan University, Aug 2023 - present.
Stanford Biodesign Global Faculty Trainee, Jan 2024 - June 2024.
Director of Machine Learning Science, Freenome, Dec 2021 - July 2023.
Senior Manager and Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Freenome, Oct 2020 - Nov 2021.
Staff machine learning scientist, Freenome, July 2019 - Sep 2020.
Senior machine learning scientist, Freenome, Oct 2017 - June 2019.
Simons Postodoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, PI: Prof. Yun S. Song, Aug 2015 - Aug 2017.
Postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Berkeley. PI: Prof. Yun S. Song, Sep 2013 - Aug 2015.
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. PI: Prof. Alfred Hero, Feb 2013 - June 2013.
Research visitor at Supélec and AgroParisTech, France, June 2012.
Research visitor at Supélec, France, June 2011.
Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of Michigan, advisor: Prof. Alfred Hero, co-advisor: Prof. Clayton Scott, 2008 - Jan 2013.

Peer Review Experiences

Reviewer of BMC bioinformatics
Reviewer of CSDA, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Reviewer of ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Reviewer of ICIP, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Honors and Awards

Yushan Young Fellow, 2023.
Young Woman Rising Star in AI award, International Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2022.
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Travel Award, July 2016.
Computational Biology and Genomics Retreat Oral Presentation Award, Nov 2014.
Winner of Engineering Graduate Symposium, Signal Processing and Computer Vision track, Nov 2012.
Elected as a member of the honor society Phi Kappa Phi, Mar 2009.
Systems One Year Merit Fellowship, Jan 2008 - Dec 2008.
National Science Council Undergraduate Research Scholarship, July 2006 - Feb. 2007.
National Taiwan University Presidential Awards in 2003 and 2004.

Contact Information

Email: < joyliu AT ntu DOT edu DOT tw >
Phone: +886-2-33661911
Office: EE2-342, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan.
Lab: MD-726, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan.

Google Sites

Report abuse