Chuanhai Liu

• Professor of Statistics
• E-mail: chuanhai@purdue.edu
• Homepage: https://www.stat.purdue.edu/~chuanhai
• Publications: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gpEKdbUAAAAJ&hl=en
• Office: MATH 240
• Phone: 765-494-3845
• Fax: 765-494-0558

Education

• M.S., Wuhan University, Probability and Statistics, 1987
• M.A., Harvard University, Statistics, 1990
• Ph.D., Harvard University, Statistics, 1994

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 )

Awards/Honors

• Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 2007
• Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, 2006
• Outstanding Statistical Application Paper (Journal of the American Statistical Association), 2000
• The Frank Wilcoxon Prize, 2000
• The Bell-Labs President's Silver Award, 1998
• Outstanding Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, 1994

For more information about Chuanhai Liu, please visit: https://www.stat.purdue.edu/~chuanhai