Faculty    
Core Faculty - Advisory Committee

Eligible to take student(s):

Institute of Biological Chemistry 中央研究院 生物化學研究所

Dr. James C. Liao 廖俊智院長
liaoj@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
Professor Liao is a world leader in metabolic and synthetic biology, particularly in the area of microbial synthesis of fuels and chemicals, and in the redesign of primary metabolic network. He also developed Network Component Analysis (NCA) and Ensemble Modeling for analyzing transcription regulatory networks, and designed synthetic (artificial) gene-metabolic regulatory circuits, which set the foundation for metabolic synthetic biology.
 
Biodiversity Research Center 中央研究院 生物多樣性研究中心

Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li 李文雄
whli@sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Evolutionary genomics
● Molecular evolution
● Bioinformatics and computational biology
● Population genetics, human genetics
 
Core Faculty – Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Academia Sinica 中央研究院數理科學組
 
Institute of Information Science 中央研究院資訊科學研究所

Dr. Huai-Kuang Tsai 蔡懷寬
hktsai@iis.sinica.edu.tw
Students: Yu-Hsin Chen, Shang-Kok Ng
● Evolutionary algorithm
● Bioinformatics
● Regulatory mechanism
● Metagenomics
 
Institute of Statistical Science 中央研究院 統計科學研究所

Dr. Grace S. Shieh 謝叔蓉
gshieh@stat.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Precision Medicine: Prediction for drug response of cancer patients
● Identify gene signature of immunotherapy (PD-L1 inhibitor, etc)
● Integrative Analysis of multi-omics data
 
Institute of Statistical Science 中央研究院 統計科學研究所

Dr. Hsin-Chou Yang 楊欣洲
hsinchou@stat.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Statistical genetics/genomics
● Disease gene mapping
● Population genomics
● Omics data analysis
 
Institute of Statistical Science 中央研究院 統計科學研究所

Dr. Shin-Sheng Yuan 袁新盛
syuan@stat.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Microarray data analysis
● Drug response mechanism
● Medical imaging data analysis
● Manipulating mass spectra database
 
Institute of Statistical Science 中央研究院 統計科學研究所

Dr. Wei-chung Liu 劉維中
wliu1975@stat.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Mathematical biology
● Theoretical ecology
● Quantitative epidemiology
● Network biology
● Sociology
● Systems biology
 
Institute of Statistical Science 中央研究院 統計科學研究所

Dr. Chen-Hsiang Yeang 楊振翔
chyeang@stat.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Cancer genomics
● Molecular evolution
 
Institute of Statistical Science 中央研究院 統計科學研究所

Dr. Hsuan-Yu Chen 陳璿宇
hychen@stat.sinica.edu.tw
Students: Rodrigo Espinoza Silva
● Bioinformatics
● Epidemiology and biostatistic
● Integrative cancer biology
● Personalized medicine
 
Institute of Statistical Science 中央研究院 統計科學研究所

Dr. Yen-Tsung Huang 黃彥棕
ythuang@stat.sinica.edu.tw
Students: Jia-Ying Su
● Biostatistics
● Statistical Genetics
● Integrative Genomics
● Causal Mediation model
● Survival Analysis
● Epidemiology
● Causal Inference
 
Institute of Statistical Science 中央研究院 統計科學研究所

Dr. Tso-Jung Yen 顏佐榕
tjyen@stat.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Algorithms for solving large scale statistical problems
● Estimation of high dimension models
● Analysis of social network data
 
Research Center for Applied Sciences 中央研究院 應用科學研究中心

Dr. Jung-Hsin Lin 林榮信
jhlin@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Pharmacoinformatics
● Computational biophysics
● Bioinformatics
● Structural biology
● Molecular simulations
 
Institute of Chemistry 中央研究院 化學研究所

Dr. Chao-Ping Hsu 許昭萍
cherri@chem.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Charge transport and energy transfer in advanced materials
● Dynamic description of biological systems
 
Research Center for Information Technology Innovation中央研究院 資訊科技創新研究中心

Dr. Yu Tsao 曹昱
yu.tsao@citi.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Assisitve Speech Communication Technologies
● Audio-coding
● Deep Neural Networks
● Biomedical Signal Processing
● Speech Signal Processing
 
Core Faculty – Division of Life Sciences, Academia Sinica 中央研究院生命科學組
 
 
Institute of Biomedical Sciences 中央研究院 生物醫學科學研究所

Dr. Hung-Hsin Chen 陳弘昕
hunghsinchen@ibms.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Genetic Epidemiology
● Human Genomics
● Biobank analysis
● Transcriptomics
 
Biodiversity Research Center 中央研究院 生物多樣性研究中心

Dr. Sen-Lin Tang 湯森林
sltang@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Microbial Ecology and diversity
● Microbial genomics (Metagenomics0
● Computational biology
 
Biodiversity Research Center 中央研究院 生物多樣性研究中心

Dr. John Wang 王忠信
johnwang@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Genetics, genomics, behavior, and evolution of social insects.
● Evolution of genome size in nematodes.
 
Biodiversity Research Center 中央研究院 生物多樣性研究中心

Dr. Isheng Jason Tsai 蔡怡陞
ijtsai@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Comparative and population genomics
● Evolution of parasitism and pathogenicity
● Eukaryotic microbe (fungi and helminths) ecology and biodiversity
 
 
Genomics Research Center 中央研究院 基因體研究中心

Dr. Trees-Juen Chuang 莊樹諄
trees@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
● Comparative & evolutionary genomics post-transcriptional modification
● Systems biology
● Primate evolution
● Genome annotation
 
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology 中央研究院 植物暨微生物學研究所

Dr. Pao-Yang Chen 陳柏仰
paoyang@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students: Yu-Chun Huang
● Next generation genetics
● DNA methylation in plants
● DNA methylation landscape in plants, animals, and human
 
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology 中央研究院 植物暨微生物學研究所

Dr. Chuan Ku 顧銓
chuanku@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Genome evolution and regulation
● Algae and giant viruses
● Ancient evolution
● Microbial interactions and ecology
● Single-cell omics
 
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology 中央研究院 植物暨微生物學研究所

Dr. Ting-Ying Wu 吳亭穎
tingying@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Plant systems biology
● Multi-omics analysis
● Predictive biology
● Evolution of heat and drought stress
 
Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center 中央研究院農業生物科技研究中心

Dr. Ho-Ming Chen 陳荷明
homing@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students: Tzu-Hsiang Lin
● Small RNA function
● Genome of non-model organism
 
 
Institute of Molecular Biology 中央研究院 分子生物研究所

Dr. Chien-Ling Lin 林倩伶
mbcllin@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● High-throughput experimental and computational analysis of pre-mRNA splicing regulation
● Post-transcriptional mis-regulation in diseases
● Molecular and biochemical analysis of pre-mRNA splicing and translational control
 
Institute of Molecular Biology 中央研究院 分子生物研究所

Dr. Sheng-Hong Chen 陳昇宏
shengchen@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Single-cell systems biology
● Signaling dynamics
● Cancer genomics
● Drug combination design
 
Institute of Molecular Biology 中央研究院 分子生物研究所

Dr. Wei-Hsiang Lin 林暐翔
whl243@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Students:
● Mathematical model for reaction network and cell growth
● Community growth in ecology
● Microfluidic culture in bacteria and time-laps microscopy
● Using fluorescent biosensor to study metabolism
 
Core Faculty in Collaborative Universities
 
Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hua University
國立清華大學 生物資訊與結構生物研究所

Dr. Lee-Wei Yang 楊立威
lwyang@life.nthu.edu.tw
Students:
● Molecular Modeling
● Theoretical Biophysics
● Structural Bioinformatics
 
Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hua University
國立清華大學 生物資訊與結構生物研究所

Dr. Hsiao-Han Chang 張筱涵
hhchang@life.nthu.edu.tw
Students: Daniel Garcia-Ruiz
● Genomics
● Pathogen evolution
● Computational Biology
 
Institute of Statistics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
國立陽明交通大學 統計學研究所

Dr. Henry Horng-Shing Lu 盧鴻興
henryhslu@nycu.edu.tw
Students:
● Scientific computing
● Image science
● Bioinformatics
 
Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
國立陽明交通大學 生物資訊及系統生物研究所

Dr. Jinn-Moon Yang 楊進木
moon@faculty.nctu.edu.tw
Students:
● Bioinformatics systems biology
● Drug design
● Systems biology
 
Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
國立陽明交通大學 生物資訊及系統生物研究所

Dr. Jhih-Wei Chu 朱智瑋
jwchu@nctu.edu.tw
Students:
● Biosystems simulation
● Multiscale modeling theory
● Protein conformational changes and alloetery
● Drug discovery and development
● Molecular kinetics
 
Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
國立陽明交通大學 生物資訊及系統生物研究所

Dr. Tai-Ming Ko 柯泰名
taiming23@gmail.com
Students: Po-Yuan Chen
● Single cell sequencing
● Nano-pore sequencing
● Immunogenomics
● Pharmacogenomics
 
 
Institute of BioMedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
國立陽明交通大學 生物醫學資訊研究所

Dr. Hsuan-Cheng Huang 黃宣誠
hsuancheng@nycu.edu.tw
Students: Ping-Yun Ou
● Networks biology
● Systems biology
● Bioinformatics
 
 
Institute of BioMedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
國立陽明交通大學 生物醫學資訊研究所

Dr. Chen-Ching Lin 林振慶
chenching.lin@nycu.edu.tw
Students:
● Network Biology
● Computational Biology
● Bioinformatics
 
Institute of BioMedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
國立陽明交通大學 生物醫學資訊研究所

Dr. Yen-Hua Huang 黃彥華
yhhuang@nycu.edu.tw
Students:
● NGS data analysis and integrated interpretation (e.g. integration with heterogeneous data sources)
● Annotation of new genomes and comparative genomics based data mining
● Human gene expression profile analysis and regulatory circuit reconstruction
 
Institute of BioMedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
國立陽明交通大學 生物醫學資訊研究所

Dr. Chun-Ying Wu 吳俊穎
dr.wu.taiwan@gmail.com
Students:
● Microbiota and human diseases
● Health big data research
● Digestive cancer translational research
● Biomarkers and biochips
 
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 生醫電子與資訊學研究所

Dr. Chung-Ping Chen 陳中平
cpchen@ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● Statistical Timing Analysis
● Circuit Simulation and Optimization
● Microprocessor Design
 
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 生醫電子與資訊學研究所

Dr. Nien-Tsu Huang 黃念祖
nthuang@ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● developing integrated electrical, optical and mechanical miniaturized fluidics and sensors for biological applications, such as cellular biology, drug screening, and disease diagnosis
 
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 生醫電子與資訊學研究所

Dr. Po-Ling Kuo 郭柏齡
poling@ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● Biophysics
● Mechanobiology
● Biomechanics
 
Graduate Institute of Physiology, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 生理學研究所

Dr. Liang-Chuan Lai 賴亮全
llai@ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● using microarray or next generation sequencing to explore the cancer genomics
● Investigation of regulatory mechanism of NDRG1 upon reoxygenation
● Regulation of transcription and metastasis of semaphorin family in lung cancer
 
Institute of Health Data Analytics and Statistics, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 健康數據拓析統計研究所

Dr. Tzu-Pin Lu 盧子彬
tplu@ntu.edu.tw
Students: Yu-Ching Hsu
● Bioinformatics
● Microarray and next generation sequencing data analysis
● Computational Biology
 
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 生醫電子與資訊學研究所

Dr. Yufeng Jane Tseng 曾宇鳳
yjtseng@csie.ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● Computational Chemistry and Toxicology
● Metabolomics
● Bioinformatics
● Cheminformatics
● Health informatics
 
Department of Biomechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 生物機電工程學系

Dr. Chien-Yu Chen 陳倩瑜
chienyuchen@ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● Bioinformatics
● Data Mining
● Machine Learning
 
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 生醫電子與資訊學研究所

Dr. Eric Y. Chuang 莊曜宇
chuangey@ntu.edu.tw
Students: Chayanika Goswami
● Biochip Bioinformatics
● Next-Generation Sequencing
● Radiation Biology
● Cancer Biology
● Bioinformatics
 
Institute of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 生物科技研究所

Dr. Mon-Hsun Tsai 蔡孟勳
motiont@gmail.com
Students:
● Bioinformatics
● Cell Biology
● Microarray
● Radiation Biology
 
 
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 分子與細胞生物學研究所

Dr. Hsiao-Chun Huang 黃筱鈞
hsiaochun@ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● Molecular Cell Biology
● Systems and Synthetic Biology
● Cell Division
 
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 生命科學系

Dr. Hsueh-Fen Juan 阮雪芬
yukijuan@ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● Genomics
● Bioinfomatics
● Proteomics
 
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 生醫電子與資訊學研究所

Dr. An-Chi Wei 魏安祺
acwei86@ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● System Biology
● Modeling and Simulation of biological systems
● Bioenergetics and Metabolism
● Mitochondria
 
The Graduate Institute of Medical Genomics and Proteomics, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 基因體暨蛋白體醫學研究所

Dr. Shu-Jui Hsu 許書睿
jacobhsu@ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● Human Genomics
● Statistical Genetics
● Bioinformatics
● Genome Medicine
 
 
Electrical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University
國立台灣大學 電機工程學系

Dr. Joyce Tzu-Yu Liu 劉子毓
joyliu@ntu.edu.tw
Students:
● Functional data analysis
● Transfer learning
● Multi-task learning
● Data fusion
● Generative model