Dr. Zhonghua Liu

Dr. Zhonghua Liu is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia University. His research develops statistical foundations for causal inference in complex biological systems, integrating statistical theory, genomics, and AI to enable intervention-level understanding.

His research program originated at the University of Hong Kong (2018–2022) and has since expanded at Columbia University, with a focus on causal genomics, large-scale inference, and AI-driven scientific discovery.

He is the Principal Investigator of an NIH R01 award and serves as Associate Editor for several leading journals in statistics and biostatistics. He received his Sc.D. in Biostatistics from Harvard University in 2015, under the supervision of Dr. Xihong Lin.

Current Group Members

• Kan Chen — Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Incoming tenure-track Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine (starting August 2026)

• Yijin (Serena) Wang — Ph.D. Student

Co-advised with Dr. R. Todd Ogden

• Lincole Jiang — Ph.D. Student

Former Group Members

Yanghyeon Cho, former postdoc (Joint with Dr. Gao Wang), now Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Idaho
Qinshuo Liu, former PhD student, now AI researcher in a Tech Company in Shenzhen.
Minhao Yao, former PhD student, now postdoc at Duke-NUS Medical School
Dr. Peixin Tian, former PhD student, now at First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University
Dr. Anqi Wang, former PhD student, now Postdoc at Columbia University
Ms. GUO Yunshan, former PhD student at University of Hong Kong, now at Yale University
Dr. XU Siqi, PhD (University of Hong Kong), PhD Student defended in August, 2023
Dr. XU Yuyang, PhD (University of Hong Kong), PhD Student defended in July, 2022.
Dr. ZOU Tingting, PhD (Northeast Normal University), Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at Jilin University, China.
Dr. LIU Wei, BSc, MSc, PhD (Southern Medical University), Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Dr. WANG Wen Wu, PhD (Shandong University), Postdoc, now Full Professor at Qufu Normal University, China
Mr. WANG Jingxuan, BSc, Mphil (HKU), now PhD student at UCSF, USA
Ms. LIANG Zhuo, undergraduate student, 2019 summer research fellowship, HKU
Ms. WU Yuxi, undergraduate student, 2019 summer research fellowship, HKU
Mr. WANG Junshi, undergraduate student, 2022 summer overseas research fellowship, jointly with Cambridge University, UK
Ms. YANG Jinghan, undergraduate student, 2022 summer overseas research fellowship, jointly with Northeastern University, USA