Dr Sidong Liu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University. He graduated from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), a member of China’s elite C9 League, where he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Bioinformatics. His academic pursuit continued at the University of Sydney (USYD), where he obtained two Master's Degrees in Bioinformatics and Computer Science, respectively.

In 2011, he was awarded the USYD International Scholarship (USydIS), which enabled him to commence his PhD research on health informatics and artificial intelligence (AI) under the supervision of Professors Tom Weidong Cai and David Dagan Feng. In 2014, sponsored by an AADRF Top-up Scholarship and a SUGUNA Alumni Scholarship, he spent a year at the Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL), Harvard Medical School as a research trainee under the mentorship of Professor Ron Kikinis.

Following his PhD, Dr Liu worked as a research associate and fellow at various departments of USYD, including the School of Computer Science (SCS), the Brain and Mind Centre (BMC) and the Save Sight Institute (SSI), from 2015 to 2018.

In 2019, he received an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship and joined Macquarie University. At Macquarie University, Dr Liu established and has been leading a research stream - AI for Precision Medicine within AIHI. His contributions to AI in Healthcare were acknowledged with multiple prestigious awards, such as the 2021 Macquarie University Early Career Researcher of the Year Award (STEMM Category), and the 2021 AIHI Researcher of the Year Award (Health Informatics). 

If you are keen to explore research opportunities with Dr Liu, particularly in the fields of health informatics and AI, please reach out directly via email at sidong dot liu at mq dot edu dot au.