Dr. Dianbo Liu

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Dianbo Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He leads the Cognitive AI Science team (CogAI4SCI), which focuses on developing AI-inspired cognitive science methods to enable machine learning, reasoning, and creation, as well as utilizing AI to improve biomedical scientific discovery and medical practice. Before founding his team, Liu was a group leader at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Yoshua Bengio at Mila-Quebec AI Institute, specializing in Humanitarian AI. Liu earned his PhD from the University of Dundee, Scotland, under the supervision of Prof. Timothea Newman, and during his doctoral studies, he was awarded the Vest Scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has co-founded start-ups including "GeneTank" and "SecureAILabs" to advance AI applications in biomedical sciences.

Research Interests

Experience

Assistant Professor

— Present

National University of Singapore • Singapore

Leading the Cognitive AI Science team and conducting research in AI methods applied to cognitive science and biomedical applications.

Requirements for National University of Singapore

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
Verbal
Required:155
Quantitative
Required:165
Analytical Writing
Required:3.5
Overall
Required:3.5
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree with Honors or equivalent Strong quantitative background
Application Checklist
  • Official Academic Transcripts
  • GRE Score Report
  • TOEFL/IELTS Score Report
  • Statement of Purpose
  • Two Recommendation Letters
Specialization Notes

Department of Economics