SYSTEMS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY JOURNAL

Biography:

Xing Li completed his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Dr. Li also has a Master Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Bachelor Degree in Microbiology. Currently, Dr. Li is an Assistant Professor and Associate Consultant in Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Science Research at Mayo Clinic, the best hospital by U.S. News & World Report.

He has published many papers in reputed journals and book chapters in the fields of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, cancer research, cardiovascular disease, embryonic stem cell (ESC) and induced Pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) research, and human genomics, genetics and development, and Microbiology. Dr. Li is also a member of American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), American Statistics Association (ASA) and American Heart Association (AHA). Dr. Li received many awards, such as AACR Young Scientist Award, ISCB Fellowship Award, and Best Presentation Award from American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), etc.

Research Interests:

Dr. Li’s research interests focus on machine learning, bioinformatics, and statistical data mining in large scale data in biomedical research, such as next generation sequencing data (whole genome sequencing, RNA-seq, microarray data, etc.).