Dr. Zhandong Liu is an associate professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Quantitative and Computational Biosciences graduate program. He serves as the chief of computational sciences at Texas Children's Hospital. Dr. Liu's educational background includes a MS degree in computer science from Wayne State University and a PhD in genomics and computational biology from the University of Pennsylvania​. Dr. Zhandong Liu's research interests span genomics, transcription regulation, disease gene prioritization and machine learning. He applies methods from computer science, statistics and related fields to investigate biomedical questions. His recent work includes using generalized graphical models and augmented reality techniques to integrate multiple data types, which aids in understanding neurological diseases.​ He has more than 100 publications in the fields of bioinformatics, genetics and genomics.