Dr. LIU, Chi Man

简介

Dr. Liu earned a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong, an MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD from HKU. Before returning to HKU as a lecturer in 2025, he worked for over ten years in the bioinformatics industry as a researcher, software engineer, and project manager. As a student, he was a top competitor in international programming contests including the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

代表成果

• HKG: An open genetic variant database of 205 Hong Kong cantonese exomes, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 2022.
• Exploring the limit of using a deep neural network on pileup data for germline variant calling, Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020.
• MEGAHIT v1.0: A fast and scalable metagenome assembler driven by advanced methodologies and community practices, Methods, 2016.
• MEGAHIT: An ultra-fast single-node solution for large and complex metagenomics assembly via succinct de Bruijn graph, Bioinformatics, 2015.
• SOAP3: Ultra-fast GPU-based parallel alignment tool for short reads, Bioinformatics, 2012.