Ian Liu

Image of me doing dance I’m currently pursuing my Master’s in biostatistics at Brown University, where I develop and apply deep learning methods for spatial proteomics and H&E images at Prof. Ying Ma’s Lab. This past summer, I interned at the Wake Forest Center for Artificial Intelligence Research under Prof. Da Ma working on neuroimaging and graph neural networks for Alzheimer’s Disease. I’m also a fractional researcher at Northern Research Institute of Health, and vice president of the Taiwan Graduate Student Association at Brown.

Before Brown, I earned my B.S. in Data Science from Fei Tian College Middletown, where I co-founded Link Club——the largest student-run organization on campus. I was honored as the college’s first-ever recipient of the Distinguished College Achievement Award, selected by unanimous committee vote, and delivered the reception speech to an audience including the city mayor and New York State Assembly woman.

Beyond Research

Outside the classroom, I’ve completed 7 internships across diverse roles in academic research, data science, data engineeering, software engineering, and DevOps——including a project at Cisco under distinguished engineer Christopher Paggen that led to a GitHub repo with 40+ stars and a Docker image with 1.2k+ pulls.

A lifelong learner and performer, I’ve been practicing Classical Chinese dance for more than 9 years and have performed everywhere from LEGOLAND to the Capital One Theatre. I currently dance with Molì Dance Company at Brown. This artistic discipline has instilled in me a strong appreciation for detail and perseverance.

I identify as an INTP-T (Logician) on the MBTI and a Type 1 Perfectionist on the Enneagram.

Research interests: spatial transcriptomics & genomics, medical imaging (neuroimaging, histology) explainable AI (XAI), graph neural networks (GNNs), causal inference, computer vision