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+---
+# Display name
+title: Chunxiao Liao
+
+# Username (this should match the folder name)
+authors:
+- Chunxiao Liao
+
+#Author Names (alternative spellings etc)
+names:
+- Chunxiao Liao
+
+#Use 1 for PI, 100 for Current Postdocs, 200 for current phds, 300 for current masters, 400 for current undergrads, 800 for alum postdocs, 810 for alum phds, 820 for alum masters, and 830 for alum undergrads, 900 for tools, 1000 for projects, 900 for tools, 1000 for projects
+weight: 200
+
+# Is this the primary user of the site?
+superuser: false
+
+# Role/position
+role: Graduate Researcher, Ph.D.
+
+university: CU
+
+department:
+- Computer Science
+
+projects:
+- <a href="/author/sbol-explorer/">SBOLExplorer</a>
+
+# Organizations/Affiliations
+organizations:
+- name: University of Colorado Boulder
+  url: ""
+
+# Short bio (displayed in user profile at end of posts)
+#bio: My research interests include distributed robotics, mobile computing and programmable matter.
+
+interests:
+- Synthetic Biology
+- Computational Biology
+- Machine Learning
+
+education:
+  courses:
+  - course: PhD in Computer Science
+    institution: University of Colorado Boulder
+    year: 2026
+  - course: Master's in Computer Science
+    institution: Rice University
+    year: 2021
+
+
+# Social/Academic Networking
+# For available icons, see: https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/page-builder/#icons
+#   For an email link, use "fas" icon pack, "envelope" icon, and a link in the
+#   form "mailto:your-email@example.com" or "#contact" for contact widget.
+social:
+# - icon: envelope
+#   icon_pack: fas
+#   link: '#contact'  # For a direct email link, use "mailto:test@example.org".
+# - icon: twitter
+#   icon_pack: fab
+#   link: https://twitter.com/GeorgeCushen
+- icon: user-graduate
+  icon_pack: fas
+  link: 
+- icon: github
+  icon_pack: fab
+  link: https://github.com/cl117
+# - icon: orcid
+#   icon_pack: fab
+#   link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1450-5638
+- icon: university-logo
+  icon_pack: Custom_University
+  link: https://www.colorado.edu/cs/academics/
+
+# Link to a PDF of your resume/CV from the About widget.
+# To enable, copy your resume/CV to `static/files/cv.pdf` and uncomment the lines below.
+# - icon: cv
+#   icon_pack: ai
+#   link: files/cv.pdf
+
+# Enter email to display Gravatar (if Gravatar enabled in Config)
+email: ""
+
+# Organizational groups that you belong to (for People widget)
+#   Set this to `[]` or comment out if you are not using People widget.
+user_groups:
+- Researchers
+- Graduate Students
+- SynBioHub
+- Genetic Design Automation
+
+#any user groups to display on the page
+display_groups:
+- SynBioHub Tool
+- SBOLExplorer 
+---
+
+Chunxiao Liao is a first-year doctoral student in the computer science department at CU Boulder, studying under Dr. Chris Myers. Before arriving in Colorado, Chunxiao completed a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Rice University. Her research is centered around enhancing the usability and discoverability of synthetic biological data to adhere to the FAIR principles for data sharing, which stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. More specifically, her research endeavors to apply techniques from Software Engineering, Bioinformatics, and Data Science to create an integrated curation workflow and a corresponding search methodology.
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