Bio Sketch Kevin J. Liu is an NIH postdoctoral fellow working with Luay Nakhleh in the Department of Computer Science and Michael H. Kohn in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice University. His research develops efficient and accurate computational algorithms and tools for large-scale comparative genomics, and then applies the insights enabled by his new approaches to create new biological and biomedical discoveries. In 2011, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was supervised by Tandy Warnow in the Department of Computer Science and C. Randal Linder in the Department of Integrative Biology. His graduate work focused on computational methods for scalable and accurate inference of large-scale multiple sequence alignments and phylogenies.