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| Education | |
| 2009-2015 | PhD, Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. |
| 2001-2005 | BA/MA, Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. |
| Experience | |
| (Academic) | |
| 2016-present | Mathematical statistician, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD. Biostatistics Research Branch |
| 2015-2016 | Post-doctoral research fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA. Advisors: Holly Janes and James Dai |
| 2012-2015 | Statistical methods for evaluating longitudinal predictive accuracy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Research Assistant. Advisor: Patrick Heagerty |
| 2009-2012 | Multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA) Air, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Research Assistant. Advisors: Elizabeth Brown and Lianne Sheppard |
| 2010 Summer | Projection methods for approximating the conditional score using the empirical likelihood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Research Assistant. Advisor: Gary Chan |
| 2002-2004 | Summer/Winter intern, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD. Digital Hammurabi, Star Tracker, and LIDAR projects. |
| (Finance) | |
| 2006-2009 | Capital markets analyst, Capital One, McLean, VA. |
| Regulatory advocacy and reform; structured finance deal execution and strategy. | |
| 2005 Summer | Summer intern, UBS Investment Bank, Taipei, Taiwan. Execution, pitching, and valuation of foreign stock issuances and merger/acquisition deals |
| Teaching | |
| (TA) | |
| 2012 Fall | Medical Biometry I (BIOST 511), University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Instructor: David Yanez |
| 2012 Winter | Regression Methods for Dependent Data (BIOST 571), University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Instructor: Ken Rice |
| 2004 Spring | Honors Linear Algebra (110.212), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Instructor: Nitu Kitchloo |
| 2003 Fall | Honors Multivariable Calculus (110.211), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Instructor: Nitu Kitchloo |
| (Courses and tutorials) | |
| 2013 Summer | Summer Computing and Research (BIOST 563), University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Course taught: Tools for communication, collaboration, and reproducibility: R, RStudio, Git, GitHub, RMarkdown Faculty instructor: Ali Shojaie |
| 2012 Summer | Summer Computing and Research (BIOST 563), University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Course taught: Tools for communication, collaboration, and reproducibility: R, RStudio, Git, GitHub, RMarkdown Faculty instructor: Ken Rice |
| Presentations | |
| (Talks) | |
| 2017 Apr | Methods for evaluating the time-varying prognostic performance of survival models, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD. Biostatistics Branch Seminar Series (Invited) |
| 2016 Nov | Quantifying the time-varying prognostic performance of survival models, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA. Department of Public Health Sciences (Invited) |
| 2015 Aug | Evaluating the predictive performance of biomarkers in survival models, Seattle, WA. 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings |
| 2015 Mar | Measures to evaluate biomarkers as predictors of incident cases, Miami, FL. 2015 ENAR |
| 2014 Aug | Describing the Time-Varying Predictive Performance of Survival Models, Boston, MA. 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings |
| 2012 Oct | Understanding and accounting for CT scanner differences in time and center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. MESA Air External Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting |
| 2011 Oct | Logic regression, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. UW Biostatistics Student Seminar |
| 2010 Oct | An alternative method of quantifying coronary artery calcification, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. UW Biostatistics Student Seminar |
| 2010 Sep | An alternative approach to scoring coronary artery calcium, Chicago, IL. MESA Air Steering Committee Meeting |
| (Posters) | |
| 2012 May | Predictive ability of alternative measures of coronary artery calcium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. UW Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Student Research Day |
| 2011 Sep | An alternative method for quantifying coronary artery calcification, University of Washington, Leavenworth, WA. UW Biostatistics Annual Retreat |
| 2011 May | An alternative method for quantifying coronary artery calcification, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. UW Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Student Research Day |
| 2010 Sep | Projection methods for approximating the conditional score: an empirical likelihood approach, University of Washington, Leavenworth, WA. UW Biostatistics Annual Retreat |
| (Other) | |
| 2012 Oct | University of Washington biostatistics alumni career panel, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Moderator |
| Honors, Awards, Scholarships | |
| 2009-2012 | Biostatistics, epidemiologic, and bioinformatic training environmental health (BEBTEH) grant trainee. Director: Lianne Sheppard |
| Technical tools | |
| (Programming languages and libraries) | |
| Actively use: | R, C/C++, JavaScript, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, RMarkdown, D3.js |
| Conversant in: | Bash, Python, MATLAB, Stata |
| (Software) | |
| Actively use | RStudio, Sublime Text, Git/GitHub, Microsoft Office, Unix/Linux, Windows |
| Languages | |
| English (Native) | |
| Mandarin Chinese (Fluent) | |
| Publications | |
| Liang CJ, Heagerty PJ. A risk-based measure of time-varying prognostic discrimination for survival models. Biometrics, DOI:10.1111/biom.12628, 2016 (with discussion). | |
| Backhus LM, Farhood F, Liang CJ, Hao H, Varghese TK, Cheng A, Au DH, Flum DR, Zeliadt SB. Imaging surveillance and survival for surgically resected non–small-cell lung cancer. Journal of Surgical Research, 200(1):171-176, 2016. | |
| Lee N, Duan H, Hebert MF, Liang CJ, Rice KM, and Wang J. Taste of a pill: Organic cation transporter-3 (OCT3) mediates metformin accumulation and secretion in salivary glands. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289(39):27055-27064, 2014. | |
| Shuster DL, Risler LJ, Liang CJ, Rice KM, Shen DD, Hebert MF, Thummel KE, and Mao Q. Maternal-fetal disposition of glyburide in pregnant mice is dependent on gestational age. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 350(2):425-434, 2014. | |
| Liang CJ, Budoff MJ, Kaufman JD, Kronmal RA, and Brown ER. An alternative method for quantifying coronary artery calcification: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). BMC Medical Imaging, 12(1):14, 2012. |