Principal Investigator

Dr Nan Liu is the Director of Duke-NUS AI + Medical Sciences Initiative (DAISI), Co-Director of SingHealth Duke-NUS AI in Medicine Institute (AIMI), and an Associate Professor at the Centre for Quantitative Medicine (CQM) and Programme in Health Services and Systems Research (HSSR), Duke-NUS Medical School.

Dr Liu is a Domain Lead (Healthcare and Human Potential) at NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute. He also teaches at NUS Department of Biomedical Informatics and is 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 has served as Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member for many international peer-reviewed journals, including npj Digital Medicine, PLOS Medicine, BMC Medicine, and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. Additionally, he is a regular reviewer for numerous 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.