Health AI researcher · London, UK

Building clinically useful AI from speech and longitudinal health data.

I am a PhD candidate in Health Informatics at King's College London. My research brings together machine learning, digital biomarkers, epidemiology and medical statistics to support more accessible and interpretable healthcare.

Research at the intersection of AI and population health.

My doctoral work combines evidence synthesis, diagnostic-accuracy assessment and multilingual deep learning for automatic speech-based depression screening. I also designed and built a working iOS prototype that translates this research into a mobile health application.

Alongside my PhD, I lead an analytical work package within the eLIXIR-BiSL programme, working with more than 30,000 repeated observations from over 18,000 infants across linked NHS datasets. Before research, I worked in data analytics and governance at Deloitte Consulting and Bank of Jilin.

I use Python, PyTorch, R, SQL and Swift, and enjoy collaborating across clinical, academic and data teams to turn complex methods into clear, responsible and reproducible outputs.

Current themes

Multilingual speech AI

Developing and evaluating deep-learning models for depression screening from English and Chinese clinical speech, with an emphasis on cross-language generalisability and clinically meaningful evaluation.

Digital biomarkers & mobile health

Translating research models into usable tools, including a Swift/iOS prototype that connects speech capture with automated depression-screening outputs.

Longitudinal health data

Analysing linked NHS maternity, neonatal and Health Visitor records using reproducible pipelines, mixed-effects models and clinically interpretable trajectories.

Selected work

Peer-reviewed journal and conference publications

  1. 2025
    Development of an AI-based Mobile App for Automatic Depression Screening Using Speech in English and Chinese

    Lidan Liu, Florence Tydeman, Wanqing Xie, and Yanzhong Wang

    47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)

  2. 2025
    Long-term outcomes of depression up to 10-years after stroke in the South London Stroke Register: a population-based study

    Lu Liu, Iain J. Marshall, Xianqi Li, Ajay Bhalla, Lidan Liu, Ruonan Pei, Charles D. A. Wolfe, Matthew D. L. O'Connell, and Yanzhong Wang

    The Lancet Regional Health - Europe

  3. 2024
    Diagnostic accuracy of deep learning using speech samples in depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Lidan Liu, Lu Liu, Hatem A. Wafa, Florence Tydeman, Wanqing Xie, and Yanzhong Wang

    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

  4. 2024
    Multilingual Depression Detection Based on Speech Signals and Deep Learning

    Lidan Liu, Florence Tydeman, Wanqing Xie, and Yanzhong Wang

    IEEE BigDataService

Education & experience

2022 - present

PhD Candidate, Health Informatics

King's College London · Department of Population Health Sciences

2025 - present

Research Assistant, eLIXIR-BiSL

King's College London · NHS South London Trusts

2019 - 2020

MSc, Advanced Computing

King's College London · Department of Informatics

2015 - 2019

BEng, Software Engineering

Jilin University

Let's connect.

I welcome conversations about health AI, digital biomarkers, longitudinal health data and interdisciplinary research opportunities.