Phone: (919) 843-1899

Fax:   (919) 962-1279

Office:  354 Hanes Hall

Yufeng Liu

Associate Professor

Department of Statistics and Operations Research

Carolina Center for Genome Sciences

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CB 3260, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

yfliu at email dot unc dot edu


Education

Ph.D. (2004) The Ohio State University

M.S. (2001) The Ohio State University

B.S. (1999) Nankai University


Honors and Awards

·       Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2008-2013.

·       UNC Junior Faculty Development Award, 2006.

·       Ransom Marian Whitney Research Award, Statistics, The Ohio State University, 2004.

·       Paper Competition Award Winner for the ASA’s Sections on Statistical Computing and Graphics, 2003.


Faculty Positions

7/2009 – present: Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill.

7/2004 – 6/2009: Assistant Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill.


Research Interests

·       Statistical Machine Learning and Data Mining

·       High-dimensional Data Analysis

·       Nonparametric Statistics and Functional Estimation

·       Bioinformatics

·       Design and Analysis of Experiments


Editorial Board

·       Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods, 1/2008-present.


Publications


Grants


Teaching

·       STOR 665 (Applied Statistics II): Spring 2010.

·       STOR 891 (Statistical Machine Learning and Data Mining), Spring 2007.

·       STOR 151 (STAT 11): Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2009.

·       STOR 664 (STAT 174: Applied Statistics I):  Fall 2007.


Carolina Center for Genome Sciences (CCGS)

·       Yufeng at CCGS Link1; Link2 ; Link3


Other Links

·        Proud Achievements

·         Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at UNC

·         The UNC Stat and OR Home Page