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Dr. Richard Liang is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the bioinformatics group of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) Laboratory Program. His primary role is in the creation, development, and maintenance of software for clinical genetic sequence analysis of HIV. He is also involved in the research activities of the bioinformatics group; his main research interests lie in phylogenetics and population genetics.

Dr. Liang's background is primarily in mathematics and probability theory, with an emphasis in population genetics. Prior to his appointment at the BC-CfE, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the UBC Department of Mathematics for two years. He received his BSc (Combined Honours Computer Science and Mathematics) from the University of British Columbia in 2004, and his PhD (Statistics) from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009.