EDUCATION

Ph. D. School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, 09/2008 - 06/2013

B. Sc. School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, 09/2004 - 07/2008

RESEARCH INTEREST

Bioinformatics studies of protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) and PTM proteome

Cancer bioinformatics for HTP technologies

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

12/2015 - Present
Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Precision medicine and cancer bioinformatics

07/2013 - 11/2015
Postdoctoral research, The CUCKOO Workgroup, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Mentor: Dr. Yu Xue
Bioinformatics of PTM proteome and PTM related enzymes

07/2008 - 06/2013
Graduate research, The CUCKOO Workgroup, USTC, Mentor: Dr. Yu Xue (Now @HUST)
Bioinformatics of PTM

10/2007 - 06/2013
Undergraduate study and graduate research, Lab of Computational Biology, USTC, Mentor: Dr. Haiyan Liu
Protein structure bioinformatics

ACADEMIC SERVICES

Associate Editor
Frontiers in Oncology

Reviewer (Journal)
Briefings in Bioinformatics, PLOS Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Scientific Data, Frontiers in Oncology, Chinese Journal of Cancer (Cancer Communications), Journal of Proteome Research, Cancer Medicine, Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, Gene, Molecular BioSystems (Molecular Omics), Computers in Biology and Medicine, Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE, Current Genomics, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Reviewer (Conference)
ICIC2010, ICIC2012, ICIC2014, InCoB2013

HONORS AND AWARDS

[10] The Chinese Academy of Sciences Director Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2013)

[9] Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Anhui Province (2013)

[8] Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, USTC (2013)

[7] The National Scholarship for Ph. D Students, Ministry of Education of China (2012)

[6] The Baosteel Scholarship for Outstanding Students (Special Award), Baosteel Education Foundation (2012)

[5] The first session of Xingye Responsibility Scholarship, USTC (2011)

[4] Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, USTC (2008)

[3] Excellent League member, USTC (2008)

[2] Kindness Scholarship, USTC (2007)

[1] Outstanding Freshman Scholarship, Grade 3 (2004)

OTHER PROFILES

ResearcherID
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-1153-2011

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9M3oBP0AAAAJ

ORCID
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9698-0610

ResearchGate
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zexian_Liu/

LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/zexianliu