Jun S. Liu

Jun Liu
Born (1965-04-26) April 26, 1965 (age 59)
EducationPeking University
Rutgers University
University of Chicago
AwardsNSF CAREER Award (1995)
COPSS' Award (2002)
Morningside Gold Medal (2010)
Pao-Lu Hsu Award (2016)
Jerome Sacks Award (2017)
Mitchell Prize (2000)
IMS Medallion Lecture (2002)
Bernoulli Lecture (2004)
IMS Fellow (2004)
ASA Fellow (2005)
ISCB Fellow (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical Machine Learning
Monte Carlo Methods
Bayesian statistics
Computational biology
High-dimensional statistics[1]
InstitutionsHarvard University
Stanford University
ThesisCorrelation Structure and Convergence Rate of the Gibbs Sampler (1986)
Doctoral advisorWing Hung Wong
Augustine Kong[2]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu

Jun S. Liu (Chinese: 刘军; pinyin: Liú Jūn; born 1965) is a Chinese-American statistician focusing on Bayesian statistical inference, statistical machine learning, and computational biology.[4] He was assistant professor of statistics at Harvard University from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 2004, he was Assistant, Associate, and full Professor of Statistics (promoted while being on leave) at Stanford University. Since 2000, Liu has been Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and held a courtesy appointment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Liu has written many research papers and a book[5] about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, including their applications in biology. He is also co-author of several early software on biological sequence motif discovery.:[1] MACAW, Gibbs Motif Sampler, BioProspector, Motif regressor, MDScan, Tmod; on genetic data analysis: BLADE, HAPLOTYPER, PL-EM, BEAM; and more recently on, genome structure, gene expression and cell type analysis: HiCNorm, BACH, CLIME, RABIT, CLIC, TIMER, and PhyloAcc.

  1. ^ a b Jun S. Liu publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Jun S. Liu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Liu, Xiaole Shirley (2002). Discovery of transcription factor binding sites using computational statistics (PhD thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 84915802. ProQuest 305549892. Closed access icon
  4. ^ Jun S. Liu at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Liu, Jun S. Monte Carlo Strategies in Scientific Computing. New York: Springer, 2001. ISBN 978-0-387-95230-7