- Faculty

Q. Chris Liu, PhD

Principal Investigator

I am an Assistant Professor in the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine (NIPM) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas . I currently work on the development of deep learning/machine learning-based tools to conduct long-read data analysis and protein binding and structural analysis. Faculty Website
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- Lab members

Houssemeddine Derbel, PhD

Postdoc Researcher

Houssem has a PhD degree in computer engineer with over 4 years of teaching experience. He is developping deep learning algorithms to analyze biological data. Google Scholar

Raj Doshi

PhD student

Raj grew up outside of Portland, OR, and was drawn to technology at an early age. Contrary to the typical kid, Raj spent summers participating in lego robotics tournaments and attending coding camps. As Raj grew older, he became interested in the health field, becoming First Aid/CPR certified at 12 years old and attending workshops at Oregon Health and Science University on weekends. After that, Raj attended Oregon State University to pursue a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to be pre-med. It was in his final year there, during the inception of the COVID-19 pandemic that he became interested in bioinformatics. While taking the last of his courses, he discovered the field and instantly developed an appreciation for it. Using his existing coding knowledge with what he learned about DNA and RNA in his undergraduate to solve health issues became a passion for him. This led him to come to UNLV to help investigate the genomic variabilities that cause disease at the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine. Current research interests include the analysis of gene isoforms and the investigation of RNA methylation within Alzheimer's disease. In his free time, he enjoys following sports, being active with his dog, and cooking meals for others. Google Scholar

Evan Kinnear

Undergraduate Researcher

Evan is a junior CS major, and interested in pursuing deep learning/computational mathematics, and have experience with Python, C++, Matlab, Linux, etc. He is working on methylation detection using deep learning. Google Scholar

Eric Wang

Lab volunteer (a diligent high-school student)

Eric is a high-school student. He have been developing machine learning algoriths to study protein sequences. Google Scholar

Carlos Munoz

Lab volunteer

Carlos works on Nanopore sequencing. Google Scholar

Our lab newly built and there are opennings for both postdoc, graduate students and undergraduate students. Feel free to contact us via qian_dot_liu_at_unlv_dot_edu for detail.


- Former Lab members

Bryce Forrest

Undergraduate Researcher

Bryce is a junior Math major/CS minor, and interested in pursuing deep learning/computational mathematics, and have experience with Python, C++, Matlab, Linux, etc. He is working on the proteomic data analysis using deep learning. Google Scholar

Madhu Pahar, PhD

Postdoc Researcher

Dr. Madhurananda Pahar received his BSc in Mathematics from the University of Calcutta, India, and his MSc in Computing for Financial Markets followed by his PhD in Computational Neuroscience from the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. His research interest lies in the area of applied machine learning to the field of Biology. Currently, he is working as a research scholar at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, and he is working to develop cutting-edge deep learning methods in human diseases for the study of genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and epi-transcriptomics. Previously, he was working in machine learning and signal processing for audio and smart sensors in bio-medicine. He was involved in the application of deep learning to detect and classify tuberculosis and COVID-19 vocal audio in real-world environments as well as the monitoring of patient behaviour using smart sensors such as an accelerometer. Google Scholar