Dr Dianbo Liu leads the Cognitive AI for Science (CogAI4Sci) team at National University of Singapore focuses on developing novel AI methods using inspiration from cognitive sciences and using the methods to solve real-world problems in biomedical sciences and healthcare. Recently we are focusing on 1) discrete compositional representationon the fundamental machine learning side, and 2) predicts treatment and intervention effects in biomedical systems, on the machine learning for science side.

Before starting CogAI4Sci team, Dianbo was a group leader at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Prior to the Broad Institute, Dianbo worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Yoshua Bengio (a Turing Award winner) and led the Humanitarian AI team at the Mila-Quebec AI Institute. This followed his fellowship training and studies in medical informatics at Harvard Medical School. Dianbo earned his PhD from the University of Dundee, Scotland, under the supervision of Prof. Timothea Newman. During his doctoral studies, he received the Vest Scholarship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was a special graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Dianbo also co-founded two start-ups, “GeneTank” and “SecureAILabs,” to advance AI applications in biomedical sciences during his training.