Systems medicine
- Assistant Professor
Biography 
Dr Liang Tian is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He also serves as an academic member in the State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis (HKBU) and the Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, and an associated member in the Shenzhen JL Computational Science and Applied Research Institute. Before joining HKBU, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Medical School at Harvard University and a research fellow in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, USA). Dr Tian’s group performs cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on Complex Systems, Statistical Physics, and Biophysics by using various analytical, numerical, modelling, simulation, and data-mining and machine-learning techniques. The main topics include Human Microbiome and Community Ecology, Biological Big-data and Machine Learning, Complex Network: Structure and Dynamics, Data-mining in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Epidemiological Modelling and so on.
+ More InformationResearch Interests
- Human Microbiome and Community Ecology
- Biological Big-Data and Machine Learning
- Complex Networks: Structure and Dynamics
Google Scholar (Feb 1, 2023)
- Citations: 558
- h-index: 10
- i10-index: 10
Selected Publications
CM Chan, W DING, L Tian, LH Tang, Real-space renormalization group transformation from CNN and maximum likelihood estimation, Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2021).
Liang Tian#; Xuefei Li#; Fei Qi; Qian-Yuan Tang; Viola Tang; Jiang Liu; Zhiyuan Li; Xingye Cheng; Xuanxuan Li; Yingchen Shi; Haiguang Liu; Lei-Han Tang; Harnessing peak transmission around symptom onset for non-pharmaceutical intervention and containment of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-021-21385-z (2021).
Liang Tian; Xu-Wen Wang; Ang-Kun Wu; Yuhang Fan; Jonathan Friedman; Amber Dahlin; Matthew K. Waldor; George M. Weinstock; Scott T. Weiss; Yang-Yu Liu; Deciphering functional redundancy in the human microbiome, Nature Communications, 11, 6217 (2020).
Abhijeet R. Sonawane#; Liang Tian#; Chin-Yi Chu; Xing Qiu; Lu Wang; Jeanne Holden-Wiltse; Alex Grier; Steven R. Gill; Mary T. Caserta; Ann R. Falsey; David J. Topham; Edward E. Walsh; Thomas J. Mariani; Scott T. Weiss; Edwin K. Silverman; Kimberly Glass; Yang-Yu Liu; Microbiome-Transcriptome Interactions Related to Severity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection, Scientific Reports, 9, 13824 (2019).
Liang Tian; Amir Bashan; Da-Ning Shi; Yang-Yu Liu*; Articulation points in complex network, Nature Communications, 8, 14223 (2017).