Jun S. Liu

Jun S. Liu (Chinese: 刘军; pinyin: Liú Jūn; born 1965) is a Chinese-American statistician focusing on Bayesian statistical inference and computational biology.[4] He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2002.[5] Liu is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and has written many research papers and a book[6] about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, including their applications in biology. He is also co-author of the Tmod software for sequence motif discovery.[1]

Jun Liu
Born (1965-04-26) April 26, 1965
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (PhD)
AwardsCOPSS Presidents' Award (2002)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical Machine Learning
Monte Carlo
Bayesian statistics
Computational biology
Signal processing[1]
ThesisCorrelation Structure and Convergence Rate of the Gibbs Sampler (1986)
Doctoral advisorWing Hung Wong
Augustine Kong[2]
Doctoral studentsXiaole Shirley Liu[3]
Yuguo Chen
Websitewww.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu

Education

Liu received his B.Sc. from Peking University in 1985. He was a PhD candidate of mathematics at Rutgers University from 1986 to 1988, and obtained his Ph.D. in statistics under the supervision of Wing Hung Wong from the University of Chicago in 1991.[2][7]

Career and research

Liu was an Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Medallion Lecturer in 2002 and a Bernoulli Lecturer in 2004. He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2004[8] and of the American Statistical Association in 2005.[9]

References
  1. Jun S. Liu publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. Jun S. Liu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Liu, Xiaole Shirley (2002). Discovery of transcription factor binding sites using computational statistics (PhD thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 84915802. ProQuest 305549892.
  4. Jun S. Liu at DBLP Bibliography Server
  5. "Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients," National Institute of Statistical Sciences, accessed June 5, 2011, http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsPresidents.pdf Archived 2015-07-01 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. Liu, Jun S. Monte Carlo Strategies in Scientific Computing. New York: Springer, 2001. ISBN 978-0-387-95230-7
  7. "Home Page for Jun Liu," Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, accessed May 29, 2011, http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu/.
  8. "IMS Fellows," Institute of Mathematical Statistics, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm Archived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. "ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm.
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