Chuanhai Liu
Research Interests
- Computational Methods for Statistical Inference
- Computational Methods: EM-type algorithms, Markov chain Monte Carlo, and Quasi-Newton methods
- Computer Languages and Environments for Data Analysis
- Computing Systems: Designs and implementations of statistical software systems for big data analysis
- Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- Modeling and Model Selection
- Multiple Comparisons
- Statistical Modeling: Philosophy, theory, and methods
- Theoretical Statististics: Foundations of statistical inference
Previous Ph.D. Students from Purdue University Department of Statistics
- Aritra Chakravorty (Joint with Professor William S. Cleveland)
- Shuang He (Joint with Professor Xiao Wang)
- Yunxiao He
- Duncan Leaf
- Andrew Lewandowski
- Ryan Martin (Joint with Professor Jayanta K. Ghosh)
- Yanhui Mi
- Jianchun Zhang
- Zuoyi Zhang (Joint with Professor Tonglin Zhang)
Education
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M.S., Wuhan University, Probability and Statistics, 1987
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M.A., Harvard University, Statistics, 1990
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Ph.D., Harvard University, Statistics, 1994
Awards/Honors
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Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 2007
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Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, 2006
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Outstanding Statistical Application Paper (Journal of the American Statistical Association), 2000
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The Frank Wilcoxon Prize, 2000
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The Bell-Labs President's Silver Award, 1998
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Outstanding Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, 1994
For more information about Chuanhai Liu, please visit:
https://www.stat.purdue.edu/~chuanhai