Expertise

Research Areas:Biological Physics

Research:

  • Imaging and microscope;
  • Computational image informatics;
  • Single molecule biophysics;
  • Nanoscale light-matter interactions

Dr. Liu and his lab focuses on the development of cutting-edge imaging methods and computational image processing/analysis algorithms to quantitatively interpret the complexity of images.

With various home-built optical microscopes and imaging systems, we are especially interested in exploring the fundamental biophysical properties in live cells and nanoscale light-matter interactions.

Our lab focused on the data-driven image analysis by integrating the cyberinfrastructure ​and the advanced computational tools.

With the development of imaging hardware and software, we are particularly interested in the fundamental questions in science and engineering.

Research:

  • Imaging Instrumentation: from single molecules to whole animal, from in vitro to in vivo
  • Computational image analysis: from analytics to informatics
  • Application 1: How chromatin moves in DNA break/repair?
  • Application 2: Force detection in live cells with FRET-based tension sensor
  • Application 3: Investigate the non-classical light source for quantum computing/information science

 

Communities
Oncology, Physics
Degrees
PhD, Purdue University, Biological Engineering, 2015
MS, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Optics, 2010
BS, Nanjing University, Physics, 2007