Principal Investigator

Dr Nan Liu is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Quantitative Medicine (CQM) and Programme in Health Services and Systems Research (HSSR), Duke-NUS Medical School. He is also a faculty member at NUS Institute of Data Science, and a graduate faculty member at Duke University, USA. Clinically, Dr Liu is affiliated with SingHealth.

Dr Liu is actively working on AI, machine learning, and data science with their applications in various clinical domains. He is particularly interested in technology translation and commercialization. He co-founded TIIM Healthcare Pte Ltd and serves as its Scientific Advisor. His research has been funded by the National Medical Research Council (NMRC), National Research Foundation (NRF), Ministry of Education (MOE), National Health Innovation Centre (NHIC), AI Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, and SingHealth Foundation, as well as industrial partners such as Continental AG.

Dr Liu serves and has served as Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member for more than 10 international peer-reviewed journals, including npj Digital Medicine, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, BMC Medicine, BMC Medical Research Methodology, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, BMC Digital Health, Computers in Biology and Medicine, and PLOS Digital Health. Additionally, he is a regular reviewer for more than 80 international journals, including The Lancet, JAMA and Nature Medicine. He also serves on the Program Committees of a number of premium AI and data science conferences such as AAAI, NeurIPS, and AMIA.


Nan is also a watercolor artist. As an elected member of the Singapore Watercolor Society, he actively participates in international and regional art events. Two of his paintings were presented as gifts to Nobel laureates Dr John Robin Warren and Sir Richard John Roberts.