Office

HJ616, Stanley Ho Building

macliu@polyu.edu.hk
2766 6931
2362 9045

Education

Ph.D. in Statistics, The University of Hong Kong

M.S. in Mathematical Statistics, Wuhan University

B.S. in Mathematics, Huazhong Normal University

Thesis

Ph.D. -- Semiparametric Estimation in Hazards Models with Censoring Indicators Missing at Random, July

2008, supervised by Dr. Qihua Wang.

M.S. -- On a Large Sample Problem in Nonlinear Regression, June 2004, advised by Professor Xiru Chen.

Work Experience

Assistant Professor in Statistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, October 2011 - present

Lecturer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, August 2010 - October 2011

Intramural Research Trainee Award Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA October 2008 - July 2010

Research Interest

Incomplete data analysis: censoring, missing and limit of detection

Longitudinal data analysis

Multivariate data analysis and related topics

Non- and semi- parametric statistics

Linear and non-linear modeling and regression analysis

Sequential analysis in biomedical studies

Survival analysis

Publications

1. Liu, A., Liu, C., Zhang, Z., and Albert, P. (2012) Optimality of Group Testing in the Presence of Misclassification. Biometrika. 99, 245-251.

2. Wang, Q., Dinse, G., and Liu, C. (2012) Hazard function estimation with cause-of-death data missing at random, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 64, 415-438
3. Tian, G., Tang, M. L., Liu, C. (2012) Accelerating the quadratic lower- bound algorithm via optimizing shrinkage parameter. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 56, 255-265.
4. Liu, C., Liu, A., and Halabi, S. (2011) Min-max combination of biomarkers to improve diagnostic accuracy. Statistics in Medicine. 30, 2005-2014.
5. Liu, C. and Wang, Q. (2010) Semiparametric estimation for regression coefficients in the Cox model with failure indicators missing at random, Statistica Sinica. 20, 1125-1142.
6. Liu, A., Li, Q., Liu, C., Yu, K., and Yu, K. F. (2010) A Rank-based test for Comparison of multidimensional outcomes, Journal of the American Statistical Association. 105, 578-587.
7. Liu, A., Liu, C., Li, Q., Yu, K.F., and Yuan, V. (2010) A threshold sample enrichment approach in a clinical trial with heterogeneous populations. Clinical Trials. 7, 537-545.
8.  Liu, A., Liu, C., and Yu, K.F. (2010) “Group-Sequential Methods in Biomedical Research”, Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, 2nd. Published Online, DOI: 10.1002/0471667196.ess7128.
9.  Liu, A., Liu, C., and Yu, K.F. (2009) “Group-Sequential Methods in Biomedical Research”, Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Life and Health Sciences, N. Balakrishnan Editor, Wiley. 365-371.
10. Wang, Q., Liu, W., and Liu, C. (2009) Probability density estimation for survival data with censoring indicators missing at random, Journal of Multivariate Analysis 100, 835-850.
11. Liu, C. (2006) On a large sample problem in nonlinear regression, Acta Mathematica Scientia, Series B 26, 385-394.

Courses to teach during academic year 2010-2011

Semester I : AMA 528  Probability and Stochastic Models

                       AMA 466  Multivariate Statistical Methods

                       AMA 1061 Foundation Mathematics

Semester II : AMA 303 Mathematics and Statistics