Hanqing Liu

Hanqing is a computational genomics researcher studying how regulatory DNA shapes brain cell identity and disease risk. During his PhD and postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute, he led the development of large-scale single-cell brain atlases and multi-omic technologies that revealed how gene regulation organizes neuronal diversity. As a Junior Fellow at Harvard, he develops cell-state-aware genomic foundation models that predict how non-coding genetic variation affects gene regulation across brain cell types and developmental states.

As a FutureHouse Fellow, Hanqing will build AI-driven frameworks that integrate large-scale single-cell and functional genomics datasets to reconstruct the regulatory architecture of psychiatric disorders and generate mechanistic hypotheses at scale.