Principal Investigator (Bio | CV)
sophia.liu@mgh.harvard.edu

B.S. in Chemical-Biological Engineering, minor in Biology, MIT (2017)
Ph.D. in Biophysics, Harvard University (2023)

- Early Independence Fellow and Core Faculty, Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard
- Affiliate Member & BroadIgnite recipient, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Master’s Student

B.S. in Computer Science,
minor in Biology, MIT (2025)

Shorna is broadly interested in deep learning methods for molecular biology applications, including therapeutics discovery.

Graduate Rotation Student

B.S. Biochemistry, B.S. Microbiology, Arizona State University (2024)

Ph.D. Student in Biology, MIT

As a postbaccalaureate in Dr. Hernandez Moura Silva’s lab at MIT, she studied how tissue-resident macrophages support adipose tissue homeostasis beyond canonical immune functions. In the Liu lab, she is investigating B cells. Beyond the lab, she enjoys any sport as long as she can get a tutorial, but her favorites are rock climbing and calisthenics.

Graduate Student

B.S. in Bioengineering and Mathematics, M.S. in Bioengineering, Stanford University (2022)
Ph.D. Student in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology, Harvard University

Gaeun is interested in developing machine learning models to understand the relationship between antibody affinity maturation, structure, and reactivity. She is also working on creating informative embeddings of spatial transcriptomics data. 

Postdoctoral Researcher

B.S. in College of Science, Purdue University (2014)
M.S./Ph.D. in Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University (2024)

More information coming soon!

Graduate Student

B.S.E. in Bioengineering, Minors in Philosophy and Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (2024)
Ph.D. Student in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP), Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST)

Ryan is jointly advised by Facundo Batista.

Research Technician

B.A. & M.S. in Computer Science, University of Chicago (2025)

Mukerrem is excited to join the Liu Lab and build computational tools to understand the immune system.

Graduate Student

B.S. in Biological Engineering, minor in Computer Science, MIT (2023)
Ph.D. Student in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP), Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST)

Kenneth is building approaches for host-pathogen interaction recording to measure the dynamics of cell interactions over infection. Kenneth is jointly advised by Sebastian Lourido.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Joining in July 2026. More information coming soon!

Master’s Student

B.Sc. in Anatomy & Cell Biology, McGill University (2025)
M.M.Sc. Student in Immunology, Harvard Medical School

Jerry is interested in applying computational and structural approaches to questions in immunology. In the Liu Lab, he is beginning work on machine-learning-informed approaches for studying antibody structure and antigen recognition.

Undergraduate Researcher

B.A. in Molecular and Cellular Biology & Economics, Harvard College (2028)

Undergraduate Researcher

More information coming soon!