Yufeng Liu
John D. MacArthur Professor of Statistics
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Research Interests
Research Interests
• Statistical Machine Learning and Data Science
• Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models
• Generative AI
• High-dimensional Data Analysis
• Nonparametric and Semiparametric Statistics
• Personalized Medicine
• Statistical Genetics and Genomics
• Bioinformatics
• E-Commerce
• Neuroimaging Analysis
• Statistical Machine Learning and Data Science
• Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models
• Generative AI
• High-dimensional Data Analysis
• Nonparametric and Semiparametric Statistics
• Personalized Medicine
• Statistical Genetics and Genomics
• Bioinformatics
• E-Commerce
• Neuroimaging Analysis
Selected Honors and Awards
Elected Fellow – Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2017
Inaugural Leo Breiman Junior Award, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, ASA, 2017.
Elected Member – The International Statistical Institute (ISI), 2014.
Elected Fellow – The American Statistical Association (ASA), 2013.
Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, UNC, 2010.
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2008.
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.
Selected Professional Services
Conference Program Chair, Conference on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2016.
Chair-Elect, Chair, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science of ASA, 2014-2015.
Program Chair-Elect, Program Chair, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science of ASA, 2012-2013.
Area Editor (2022 – 2025), The Annals of Applied Statistics.
Associate Editor (2008 – 2011; 2023 – present), Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods).
Editor (2020 – present), STAT.
Associate Editor (1/2023 – present), The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science.
Associate Editor (2019 – 2022), Canadian Journal of Statistics.
Guest Editor (2018 – 2019), A special issue for Mathematical Programming, Series B
Associate Editor (2015 – present), Journal of Multivariate Analysis.
Associate Editor (2013 – 2018), Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series B.
Associate Editor (2011 – 2014), Statistica Sinica.
Guest Editor (2011 – 2012), A Special Issue for Statistical and Its Interface.
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