Dr Peng Liu

Peng Liu is a Lecturer in Statistics (03/2019-Now). Previously he was a Postdoc Fellow at Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada (11/2017-01/2019), a Senior Postdoc Fellow at Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, United States (08/2015-10/2017), a Research Assistant at Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University (11/2013-02/2015). He obtained his PhD degree in Biostatistics from Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Science (07/2015) and BSc degree in Applied Mathematics from Central China Normal University (07/2010).

Machine Learning (matrix factorization, differential privacy), Reinforcement Learning, High Dimensional Data, Bridging Study, Functional Data Analysis, Biostatistics, Semiparametric Modelling, Causal Inference, Rank Estimation 

MAST5010, MACT7290, MAST9420 

Current PhD student: Shitao Zhu

Two projects are available for supervision - 

1. online change-point detection

2. dirty statistical models, for details of the projects, see: https://research.kent.ac.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/1480/2021/06/Peng-Liu-projects.pdf