Biography

Dr. Xu Liao is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Biostatistics at Columbia University mentored by Prof. Wenpin Hou. She completed her Ph.D. in Biostatistics and Health Data Science at Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore in 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Jin Liu. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2019, where she was mentored by Prof. Yao Wang.

Her research focuses on RNA velocity, representation learning, deep generative models, and clustering analysis. She employs advanced statistical techniques and deep learning methods to model complex biological datasets, particularly in spatially resolved transcriptomics and single-cell RNA sequencing. Her work aims to reveal novel insights from high-dimensional biological data through deep learning and statistical methods.

Working Experience

• Columbia University
  Postdoctoral Research Scientist
  Feb. 2025 – Present
  Department of Biostatistics | Mentor: Prof. Wenpin Hou

Education

• National University of Singapore
  Ph.D. in Biostatistics and Health Data Science
  Aug. 2019 – Oct. 2024
  Duke-NUS Medical School | Advisor: Prof. Jin Liu

• Xi’an Jiaotong University
  Bachelor in Statistics
  Sept. 2015 – Jun. 2019
  School of Mathematics and Statistics | Mentor: Prof. Yao Wang