Dr. Jinyan Li is a Professor of Data Sciene at the Advanced Analytics Institute and a core member at the Centre for Health Technologies, Faculty of Engineering and IT, UTS. He is also the Bioinformatics Program leader. Jinyan has a Bachelor degree of Science (Applied Mathematics) from National University of Defense Technology (China), a Masters degree of Engineering (Computer Engineering) from Hebei University of Technology (China), and a PhD degree (Computer Science) from the University of Melbourne (Australia). He joined UTS in March of 2011 after ten years of research and teaching work in Singapore (Institute for Infocomm Research, Nanyang Technological University, and National University of Singapore).

Jinyan is passionate about research on protein bindng free energy prediction, conformational B-cell epitope prediction, PPIs, disease-RNA-gene tripartite, NGS data management, and RNA-seq data anaysis. He also loves research on data mining algorithms and new machine learning methods. He has published 90 journal articles and 80 conference papers, of which many are highly cited. The journals he likes to publish include: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE TKDE, Bioinformatics, TCBB, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research and Cancer Cell. The conferences include KDD, ICML, PODS, ICDT, ICDE, ICDM and SDM. Jinyan has 4 patents.