LIU QI

LIU QI

Researcher of Artificial Intelligence in Drug Design

GHDDI

Biography

LIU QI is currently an AI Research Associate Scientist at Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI), in a Data Science group. Before joining GHDDI, he obtained his master’s degree in Control Engineering from Tsinghua University in June, 2021, and his bachelor’s degree from China University of Mining and Technology in June, 2018.

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Graph Neural Networks, Interpretable Machine Learning

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Graph Neural Networks
  • Interpretable Machine Learning
Education
  • M.Sc. in Control Engineering, 2021

    Tsinghua University

  • BSc in Electronic Information Science and Technology, 2018

    China University of Mining and Technology

Education

 
 
 
 
 
Tsinghua University, Department of Automation
M.Sc. in Control Engineering
September 2018 – June 2021 Bejing, China
  • GPA: 3.8/4.0, Ranking: TOP 5%
  • Advisor: Prof. Liu Ming
  • Relevant Courses: Big Data Systems, Big Data Analytics, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Systems Engineering and Optimization
 
 
 
 
 
China University of Mining and Technology, School of Computer Science
B.Sc. in Electronic Information Science and Technology
September 2014 – June 2018 Xuzhou, China
  • GPA: 3.5/4.0, Ranking: TOP 5%
  • Advisor: Prof. Liu Bing
  • Related courses: Advanced Programming Language Design, Computer Architecture, Computer Networks, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Embedding System

Research and Technical Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI), Beijing
AI Research, Associate Scientist | AI & Drug Discovery
July 2021 – Present Bejing, China
  • Led the design and development of an AI-generated project on small molecule drugs targeting the 3CL protein of COVID-19, proposing a novel approach to small molecule and protein processing.
  • Participated in the design and development of ADMET property prediction projects for anti-viral and anti-malaria small molecule drugs, helping to establish a small molecule property prediction platform.
  • Participated in the R&D of a project on the cryo-EM structure analysis of human abnormal fibrinogen with Peking Union Medical College, proposing a new analysis process and method.
 
 
 
 
 
Tsinghua University
Master’s Researcher
June 2019 – June 2021 Beijing, China
  • I was responsible for the design and research of the “Cancer Early Detection and AI-Assisted Diagnosis Based on Tumor Liquid Biopsy Markers in Blood” project.
  • I processed and constructed a DNA methylation dataset, and developed a new method for identifying tumor-specific DNA methylation sites and predicting the source of tumor tissue.
 
 
 
 
 
  • The design and development of the “Medical Image Intelligent Annotation” project, in which I built multiple organ semantic segmentation models based on deep learning.
  • I transformed the manual annotation software and developed an intelligent segmentation system and workflow for chest CT and MRI images. The project won the Excellent Enterprise Practice Award from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University.
 
 
 
 
 
China University of Mining and Technology
Undergraduate Researcher
December 2017 – June 2018 Xuzhou, China
  • I was in charge of the design and development of “Image Natural Language Description Based on LSTM”. I created a Chinese image natural language description dataset and built multiple CNN+LSTM image description models.
  • I compared the natural language description performance of the models on various datasets, and developed an application software. The project was named the Outstanding Undergraduate Graduation Project in 2018.

Projects

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Target-specific Molecular Generation
Target-specific Molecular Generation integrating protein-ligand interactions
AI-Assisted Annotation
AI-Assisted Annotation for Medical Image

Hornors & Awards

  • Tsinghua Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship (Top 10%), 2019
  • CUMT Excellent Undergraduate Thesis (Top 10%), Xuzhou China, 2018
  • CUMT First Prize Scholarship and Outstanding Student Award (Top 10%), Xuzhou China, 2017
  • 1st Prize in The 13th National College Students’ Embedded System Design Competition, Beijing China, 2017
  • 2nd Prize of East China Division in the 3rd National College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Nanjing China, 2017

Certificates

Skills

Programming

Python, Shell, C++, Java

Data science

R, SQL, Excel

Web Dev

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Scientific

LaTeX, Git/GitHub, MATLAB

Languages

Chinese (native), English (fluent), German (beginner)

Others

C, VHDL/Verilog, PCB

Service

 
 
 
 
 
Membership
September 2019 – June 2021 Beijing, China
Student Membership of Chinese Association of Automation (CAA)
 
 
 
 
 
IOT & Big Data Institute of CUMT
Deputy head
December 2016 – June 2017 Xuzhou, China
  • Responsible for the establishment, management, and organization of laboratory events, as a founding member, assisted the professor in designing laboratory management regulations, organized and managed a student team of dozens of people, and organized a series of activities including more than a dozen scientific and technological innovation competitions, lectures, and other events.

Hobbies

Sports & Music

Biking, Badminton, Music

Art & Design

Photographing, Adobe, Powerpoint, CAD, Solid works

Others

Cooking, GIS, Translating, Writing

Contact

Contact Me

  • nihaoworld@outlook.com, qi.liu@ghddi.org
  • Building 2, Zhongguancun Dongsheng International Science Park, 1 Yongtaizhuang N Rd, Beijing, China 100192