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.

• 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

• Stanford’s top 2% scientists by Elsevier & Scopus, single year (2023), top ranked category: bioinformatics (rank: 451), 2024
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), 2024
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health (FRSPH), 2024