Jun Liu is an award-winning Chinese

China

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-American

United States

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 statistician

Statistician

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. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award

COPSS Presidents' Award

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 in 2002. He is a professor in the Department of Statistics

Statistics

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 at Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and has written many research papers and a book about Markov chain Monte Carlo

Markov chain Monte Carlo

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 algorithms, including their applications in biology

Biology

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. He is also co-author of the Tmod software for motif

Sequence motif

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 discovery.

Liu was an IMS

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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 Medallion Lecturer in 2002 and a Bernoulli

Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability

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 Lecturer in 2004. He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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 in 2004 and of the American Statistical Association

American Statistical Association

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 in 2005.

Liu received his B.Sc. from Peking University

Peking University

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 in 1985 and his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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in 1991.