Boxiang Liu obtained Bachelor’s degree in Biophysics from Illinois Wesleyan University, a MS degree in Statistics and a PhD degree in Bioinformatics from Stanford University. He was a research leader at Baidu Research USA and joined the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor in 2022. His research group specializes in genetic regulation of molecular traits (QTLs) and single-cell multi-omics. He is the winner of President’s Award in Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Stanford University CEHG fellowship, Charles B. Carrington Memorial Award, Presidential Young Professor, and the Chinese Government Outstanding Overseas Ph.D. Students. His research group focuses on using computational and statistical tools to understand the genetics of complex human diseases, with the long-term goal of validating known and identifying novel drug targets.