Jia Meng received his PhD in Electrical Engineering (Bioinformatics) from University of Texas at San Antonio in 2011. Before joining Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in 2013, he was a Staff Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Broad Institute, managing the Bioinformatics Core Facility at Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Jia Meng is now a Professor and Department Head at Department of Biosciences and Bioinformatics (previously Department of Biological Sciences), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University with an honorary appointment from University of Liverpool. Jia Meng has previously worked on a wide variety of computational biology projects that aim at a system level understanding of gene regulation. His works typically integrate multiple high-throughput data types and various knowledge databases with advanced multivariate techniques involving deep learning and statistical models. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and is now focusing primarily on bioinformatics of RNA modifications and epitranscriptome. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health.

孟佳在美国德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校获得电子工程学博士学位（生物信息学方向），后加入美国麻省理工学院和伯德研究所从事生物信息学研究工作。 孟佳于2013年加入西交利物浦大学生物科学系，历任讲师（今助理教授）、副教授、资深副教授、教授，建立了生物信息学本科专业，现任生物科学与生物信息学系（原生物科学系）主任，生物信息研究中心（苏州独墅湖高教区重点科研平台）主任，英国利物浦大学的兼职博导。孟佳长期从事生物信息数据特别是高通量数据的分析和研究工作，专注于利用数学和统计方法系统性的理解基因调控过程，开发新的数据分析工具。已发表论文专著等100余篇，主研包括国家自然基金在内的各类科研基金项目十余个，先后入选江苏省双创计划, 江苏省六大人才高峰，苏州市优秀教育工作者，英国皇家公共卫生协会会士等高层次人才计划及荣誉。孟佳目前主要专注于RNA修饰和表观转录组的生物信息学研究。

• Bioinformatics for RNA modifications and Epitranscriptomics
• Machine learning Deep learning for Biomedicine
• RNA modification in mRNA vaccine and RNA therapeutics
• Single-cell transcriptomics and epitranscriptomics modeling and analysis
• Next Generation Sequencing: Illumina and Nanopore sequencing
• Bioinformatics Databases and Web Tools
• Systems Biology

For perspective students 

We are looking for self-motivated individuals with strong quantitive background, programming skills and excellent self-learning capability to join the lab. Exceptional undergraduate students, who have a minimal GPA of 70 and TOEFL of 100 (or IELTS of 7.0), will also be considered.  Please directly Email your CV and university transcripts to jia.meng@xjtlu.edu if you are interested. 

• Lecturer (2013-2015), Associate Professor (2015-2017), Senior Associate Professor (2017-2022) and Professor (2022-Present), Department of Biological Sciences, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University - 2013 to Present
• PhD Supervisor, Institute of Integrative Biology, Faculty of Health Life Sciences, University of Liverpool - 2013 to Present
• Associate Scientist, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - 2012 to 2014
• Bioinformatician and Supervisor of the Bioinformatics Core Facility, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2012 to 2013
• Postdoc, University of Texas at Antonio - 2011 to 2012

• High-Throughput Approaches and Systems Biology (BIO316), as module leader
• Research Methods in Bioinformatics (BIO405), as module leader

• 2024年, Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)
• 2024年, Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health (FRSPH)
• 2022年入选“苏州市自然科学优秀学术论文一等奖”（SZLW202206，2020-2021年度）
• 2018年入选江苏省“双创计划”（科技副总项目，与苏州精准医疗科技有限公司合作）
• 2018年入选“苏州市优秀教育工作者”
• 2017年入选江苏省六大人才高峰高层次人才培养计划 （XYDXX-118，新一代信息技术产业，资助类型: C）
• 2016年入选苏州工业园区科教创新区“高端人才集聚工程”（科教骨干人才，教学科研突出贡献类）