Biography

Hey! Thanks for paying a visit here. I graduated from the Stats department of UConn in 2019, and I am now working as a data scientist at Upstart. We use machine learning to underwrite and automate loans, check us out at Upstart.com

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Instructor

• STAT 3115/STAT 5315, Analysis of Experiments, 2018
• STAT 3025, Statistical Methods, 2017 - 2019
  

Teaching Assistant

• STAT 3445, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, 2016
• STAT 1100, Elementary Concepts of Statistics, 2014 - 2017

Invited Talks

• Bayesian Nonparametric Monotone Regression of Dynamic Latent Traits in Item Response Model
  • ACTNext Tech Talk Series, Iowa city, 2017
  • International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), Zürich, 2017
  • Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Baltimore, 2017
  • The 10th ICSA International Conference, Shanghai, 2016
• Systematic Evaluation of Tree-based Statistical Methods in Subgroup Analysis
  • ICSA Applied Statistical Symposium, Chicago, 2017

Poster Presentations

• Bayesian Nonparametric Monotonic Regression for Dynamic Item Response Models
  • Nonparametric Bayesian workshop by SAMSI, Durham, 2015
• Analysis of Measurement Errors in Evaluating the Effectiveness of Graduated Driver’s Licensing Program
  • New England Statistics Symposium, Storrs, 2015

Services

• Committee Member of NESS NextGen, 2018 - 2020
• Photographer for UConn Statistics Biopharmaceutical Summer Academy, 2018
• President of Graduate Student Committee-Statistics, University of Connecticut, 2017 - Present
• Session chair of Joint Statistical Meetings, 2017
• Volunteer for the 31st New England Statistics Symposium, 2017
• Senator of Statistics Department at the Graduate Student Senate, University of Connecticut, 2016 - 2017

Activities

• Member of ASA, IMS, ICSA, 2014 - Present
• Member of New England Statistical Society, 2017 - Present

• yang.5.liu@uconn.edu
• Columbus, OH