Jie Liang, PhD

Jie Liang, PhD, is the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Bioengineering in the Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering at the UIC College of Engineering and the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago. He joined UIC in 1999. His research is focused on database/tools for inference and cancer mutations. Research in his lab has focused on constructing quantitative models and developing computational tools to study biological systems for gaining understanding of how living systems work. His lab has developed state-of-the-art tools for computing protein binding pockets and voids, as well as general metric measurements based on the alpha shape theory and dual complexes. The Computed Atlas of Surface Topography of proteins (CASTp) web server developed in his lab is widely used by structural biologists. The lab has significant experience in developing models and algorithms for sampling chain polymers, and has also developed algorithms for reconstruction of ensemble 3D structures of chromosomes.

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