At Mayo Clinic, Liu led major initiatives in biomedical informatics, cancer data science and digital health, including development of enterprise-scale data platforms and the Clinical Language Analytics Service Infrastructure, an AI-driven clinical natural language processing platform that supported more than 800 research projects and over 50 NIH-funded studies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She also led the internationally recognized Open Health Natural Language Processing consortium, which established widely adopted open-source tools for biomedical NLP and accelerated AI applications in real-world healthcare settings worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since joining UTHealth Houston in 2023 through a prestigious CPRIT Established Investigator Award, Liu has expanded leadership across major UT System AI and real-world data initiatives. Through the UT System Health Intelligence Platform, she leads collaborative efforts to establish unified data infrastructure across all UT health institutions and directs the UT REAL-Health AI Pilot Program to accelerate responsible AI deployment in healthcare.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Liu has maintained continuous federal funding since 2003 and currently serves as a principal leader of ReCARDO, a $27.2 million National Institute on Aging initiative focused on harmonizing real-world clinical data to accelerate Alzheimer\u2019s disease and dementia research across 10 leading institutions nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u202fLiu has made significant contributions across bioinformatics, software engineering, big data analytics, cancer research, epidemiology, clinical research and healthcare delivery. \u202fShe is a pioneer in developing machine learning and big data techniques for biomedical and clinical natural language processing \u2014 a branch of AI that focuses on empowering computers with the ability to understand text.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In her role as CTAIIO, Liu will provide strategic academic leadership across clinical care, research, education and operational innovation, helping integrate AI throughout UT Dell Medical Center and Dell Medical School.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u202f\u201cHealthcare is entering a transformative era where artificial intelligence, computational medicine and human-centered care must evolve together,\u201d Liu said. \u201cUT Austin and Dell Medical School have a unique opportunity to build a truly integrated academic health ecosystem that combines technological innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, discovery science and clinical excellence to improve health for individuals and populations alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Mayo Clinic, Liu led major initiatives in biomedical informatics, cancer data science and digital health, including development…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31343,132,134,133,29642],"class_list":["post-298715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-academic-medicine","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-medical-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}