[1] He was a Research Assistant Professor of Computational & Systems Biology Department at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
[1] He was 37 years old at the time of his death, in which he was shot dead in his home.
The case received American and Chinese media coverage.
[1] The gunman was 46-year-old software engineer Hao Gu.
[1] The police said that the murder was the result of a dispute over an intimate partner and that after murdering Bing Liu the gunman had gone back to his car and shot himself.