Sidong Liu is a Senior Research Fellow at Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University. He has a research background in biomedical informatics and computer science. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Bioinformatics from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), which is a member of China’s elite C9 League. He further recieved a Master's Degree in Bioinformatics and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from University of Sydney (USYD) in 2009 and 2010, respectively. In 2011, he was awarded a USYD International Scholarship (USydIS), and started his PhD research on health informatics and artificial intelligence (AI) under the supervison of Professors Weidong Cai and Dagan Feng. In 2014, he spent one year at the Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL), Harvard Medical School (HMS) as a research trainee under the supervision of Professor Ron Kikinis. After his PhD, he worked as a research associate / fellow at the USYD School of Computer Science (SCS), Brain and Mind Centre (BMC) and Save Sight Institute (SSI) from 2015 to 2018. He joined Macquarie University in 2019 with a NHMRC Early Career Fellowship. He has established and is now leading a research stream - Translational AI for Healthcare - at AIHI. In recgnition of his outstanding work in AI in Healthcare, he received the Macquarie University Early Career Researcher of the Year Award (STEMM Category), and the AIHI Researcher of the Year Award (Health Informatics) in 2021.