Huiling Liao

  • Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics

Education

  • Ph.D in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
  • Bachelor of Economics School of Statistics, Renmin University of China

Awards

Winner of IEEE Healthcare Summit COVID-19 Data Hackathon, 2021
· Imaging Informatics: Yucheng Wang, Huiling Liao, Huaxing Ren, Xiaoning Qian. COVID-19 Diagnosis by
Segmented Ground Glass Opacity Volumes in CT Images Using U-Net, submitted to IBACP, 2021.

Outstanding Graduates of Renmin University of China, 2015

Outstanding Graduate Thesis of Renmin University of China, 2015

Outstanding Prize of Undergraduate Innovative Test Program, 2015
· Topic: Current Situation and Factors Analysis of College Students’ Happiness.
· A two-year project supervised by Dr. Danhui Yi.
· Proposed the topic of research, literature review of Happiness and related questionnaires, to design our
version of Happiness questionnaire, developed the pipeline of analysis involving factor analysis and
structure equation modeling and led to conduct research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

Publications

  1. Kolari, J.W., Huang, J.Z., Liu, W. and Liao, H.,2024. A cross-sectional asset pricing test of model validity.
    (Coming up in Applied Economics)
  2. Liao, H., Xue, H., & Pan, W. (2024). Inferring causal direction between two traits using R2 with application
    to transcriptome-wide association studies. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 111(8), 1782-1795.
  3. Zhao, B., Ibrahim, J.G., Li, Y., Li, T., Wang, Y., Shan, Y., Zhu, Z., Zhou, F., Zhang, J., Huang, C. and Liao, H.,
    2019. Heritability of regional brain volumes in large-scale neuroimaging and genetic studies. Cerebral
    Cortex, 29(7), pp.2904-2914.
  4. Zhao, B., Zhang, J., Ibrahim, J.G., Luo, T., Santelli, R.C., Li, Y., Li, T., Shan, Y., Zhu, Z., Zhou, F. and Liao,
    H., 2019. Large-scale GWAS reveals genetic architecture of brain white matter microstructure and genetic
    overlap with cognitive and mental health traits (n= 17,706). Molecular psychiatry, pp.1-13.
  5. Kolari, J.W., Huang, J.Z., Butt, H.A. and Liao, H., 2022. International tests of the ZCAPM asset pricing 2/4 model. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, p.101607.
  6. Kolari, J.W., Huang, J.Z., Liu, W. and Liao, H., 2022. Further Tests of the ZCAPM Asset Pricing Model.
    Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 15(3), p.137.