Chen
Liang
PhD
FAMIA
Contact
University of Washington
Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME)
Box 358047
Seattle, WA 98195
Biography
Dr. Liang was intrigued by artificial intelligence and human cognition when he was majoring in Electrical and Information Engineering and continued the Master’s program in Psychology at Soochow University. He then obtained a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Texas McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics. Since then, he has been committed to augmenting artificial intelligence to support clinical care and translational medicine. Dr. Liang is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. Nationally, he was recognized as the Data and Technology Advancement (DATA) Scholar at NIH/NIDDK. Emerging as a prominent junior researcher, he was the Principal Investigator to lead two NIH/NIAID funded R21 grants and Co-Investigator on numerous extramural grants.
Research
Dr. Liang’s research has centered on multi-modal health data integration, common data models, biomedical ontology, EHR-based deep phenotyping and data mining, and machine-learning-based clinical predictive models to be used for augmenting Clinical Decision Support Systems, diagnostics, screening, comorbidity reasoning, prognosis prediction, and evidence-based intervention. He has applied these informatics methods in infectious and immune-mediated diseases (e.g., COVID-19, HIV/AIDS), obstetrics and genecology, precision medicine in nephrology, cardio-cerebrovascular diseases, oral dental and craniofacial medicine, and substance use disorders.
Current projects
- Developing hybrid knowledge-graph-driven machine learning algorithms for identifying and characterizing Long COVID
- Examining co-infection of HIV/SARS-CoV-2 using machine learning models and nation-wide EHR
Publications
Education and Training
2012-2017
Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health
Science Center, Houston, Texas
2009-2012
M.S. in Psychology
Soochow University, Suzhou, China
2004-2008
B.E. in Electrical and Information Engineering (with honors)
Soochow University, Suzhou, China
Links
Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME)
Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association
