Jie Liang

Expertise: bioinformatics; systems biology; cell and tissue pattern modeling; stochastic networks

Jie Liang is the Richard and Loan Hill professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  He received his B.S. degree from Fudan University in 1986, MCS and Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994. He was an NSF CISE research associate (1994-1996) at the Beckman Institute and National Center for Supercomputing and its Applications (NCSA), Urbana, IL. He was a fellow at the NSF Institute of Mathematics and Applications at Minneapolis in 1996.  He was an Investigator at SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals during 1997-1999. He joined UIC in 1999 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2007.  He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2003. He was elected as a fellow of the American Institue of Medicine and Biological Engineering in 2007.  He was a University Scholar from 2010-2012.