Kung-Yee Liang | |
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梁賡義 | |
| Alma mater | National Tsing Hua University (B.A.) University of South Carolina (M.S.) University of Washington (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Generalized estimating equation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University National Yang-Ming University National Health Research Institutes Feng Chia University |
| Thesis | The Asymptotic Equivalence of Conditional and Unconditional Inference Procedures (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Breslow |
Kung-Yee Liang (Chinese: 梁賡義; pinyin: Liáng Gēng yí) is a Taiwanese biostatistician known for his work on generalized estimating equations, which he introduced together with Scott Zeger in 1986.[1][2] He is Distinguished Chair Professor at Feng Chia University and chairman of OBI Pharma, Inc.
From 1982 to 2010, Liang was a professor at the department of biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2010, Liang returned to Taiwan and moved towards administrative roles, serving first as the president of the National Yang-Ming University from 2010 to 2017 and then as the president of the National Health Research Institutes from 2017 to 2022.