现任高性能计算部副主任，中国科学院大学岗位教授，博士生导师。长期从事高性能计算与生物信息学交叉科学领域的研究工作，在Nature、Nature Genetics等期刊发表论文70余篇，总被引用3万余次。代表性算法体系MSIsensor在2017年获得美国FDA批准，被国际上700余个临床研究项目所应用。曾获2015年美国10大临床研究成就奖（排名：8/33），入选2022年美国斯坦福大学发布的“全球前2%科学家榜单”。
主持国家重点研发计划、国家自然科学基金面上、国家自然科学基金重大研究计划、中国科学院先导专项等10余项课题/项目。
[1]. Mengyuan Liu, …, Beifang Niu#. Unveiling the metal mutation nexus: Exploring the genomic impacts of heavy metal exposure in lung adenocarcinoma and colorectal cancer. (2023). Journal of Hazardous Materials, 461: 132590. (#corresponding authors)
[2]. XiaoliShi, …, Beifang Niu#, Jun Xiao#, Junming Li#, Hong Qing Ling#. (2022). Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses uncover the molecular basis of high nitrogen-use efficiency in the wheat cultivar Kenong9204. Molecular Plant, 15(9):1440-1456.
[3]. Xinyin Han*, Shuying Zhang*, …, Li Ding#, Beifang Niu#. (2021). MSIsensor-ct: microsatellite instability detection using cfDNA sequencing data. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 22(5): bbaa402.
[4]. The ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium. (2020). Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes. Nature, 578(7793): 82-93. (#Beifang Niu was a member of TCGA Consortium)
[5]. Beifang Niu*, Adam D. Scott*, Sohini Sengupta*, …, Feng Chen#, Li Ding#. (2016). Protein-structure-guided discovery of functional mutations across 19 cancer types. Nature Genetics, 48(8): 827-837.
[6]. Beifang Niu*, Kai Ye*, …, Michael C. Wendl, Li Ding#. (2014). MSIsensor: microsatellite instability detection using paired tumor-normal sequence data. Bioinformatics, 30(7):1015-1016.
[7]. Cyriac Kandoth*, Michael D McLellan*, Fabio Vandin, Kai Ye, Beifang Niu, …, Li Ding#. (2013). Mutational landscape and significance across 12 major cancer types. Nature, 502 (7471): 333-339.
[8]. Beifang Niu, Limin Fu, Shulei Sun, Weizhong Li#. (2010). Artificial and natural duplicates in pyrosequencing reads of metagenomic data. BMC Bioinformatics, 11:187.