Xueli (Shirley) Liu


Assistant Professor, Room 101C
Department of Statistics,
Griffin-Floyd Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-8545
Phone: (352) 392-1941 Ext. 212 (o)
Email: xueli$stat dot ufl dot edu


           Teaching

Introduction to Statistics Theory (STA 4322 & STA 5328), Fall 2008

Introduction to Statistics Theory (STA 4322 & STA 5328), Spring 2008

Nonparametric Statistical Methods (STA4502 & STA5507), Fall 2007

Introduction to Statistics Theory (STA 4322 & STA 5328), Spring 2007

Matrix Algebra and Statistical Computing (STA6329), Fall 2006

           Statistical Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Data (STA6934), Spring 2006

Nonparametric Statistical Methods (STA4502 & STA5507), Fall 2005

            Introduction to Probability (STA4321 & STA5325), Spring 2005

 

 

       Research Interests

 

Bioinformatics, statistical genetics, data mining, functional data analysis, and array data analysis.


Education

        2002                 Ph.D. in Statistics, Statistics Department, University of California, Davis
    1998-1999            Graduate Student, Statistics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    1998 June             M.S. in Statistics, Department of Probability & Statistics,
Peking University, P.R.China
    1995 June             B.S. in Mathematics, Mathematics Department,
Beijing Normal University, P.R.China

 

 

           Publications

             

   

10. Kim, H.L., Seligson, D.B., Liu, X., Janzen, N., Bui, M.H.T., Yu, H., Shi, T., Belldegrun, A.S., Horvath, S., Figlin, R.A. (2005). Using Tumor Markers to Predict Survival of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients (Accepted, The Jounral of Urology).

 

9. Liu, X., Minin, V., Huang, Y., Seligson, D.B. and Horvath, S. (2004). Statistical Methods for Analyzing Tissue Microarrays Data. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 14, 671-685.

 

8. Kim, H.L., Seligson, D.B., Liu, X., Janzen, N., Bui, M.H.T., Yu, H., Shi, T., Figlin, R.A., Horvath, S. and Belldegrun, A.S. (2004) Molecular Staging using Protein Expression Profile Accurately Predicts Survival in Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research 10, 5464-5471.

 

7. Liu, X. and Müller, H.G. (2004) Functional Convex Averaging and Synchronization for Time-Warped Random Curves. Journal of American Statistical Association 99: 687-699.

 

6. Seligson, D.B., Pantuck, A.J., Liu, X., Huang, Y., Horvath, S., Bui, M.H.T., Han, K., Correa, A.J.L., Eeva, M., Tze, S., Palotie, A., Figlin, R.A. and Belldegrun, A.S. (2004). EpCAM (KSA) Expression: Pathobiology and Its Role as An Independent Predictor of Survival in Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research 10, 2659-2669.

 

5. Han, K., Seligson, D.B., Liu, X., Horvath, S., Shintaku, P.I., Thomas, G.V., Said, J.W. and Reiter,R.E. (2004) Prostate Stem Cell Antigen (PSCA) expression is associated with increasing Gleason score, seminal vesicle invasion, and capsular invasion in prostate cancer:  implications for prognosis and therapy. The Journal of Urology 171: 1117-1121.

 

4. Liu, X., Huang, Y., Seligson, D.B. and Horvath, S. (2003) Tree-based Methods for Analyzing Tissue Microarrays Data. The JSM 2003 Proceedings (Biopharmaceutical section).

 

3. Liu, X. and Müller, H.G. (2003) Modes and Clustering for Time-Warped Gene Expression Data. Bioinformatics 19: 1937-1944.

 

2. Carey, J.R., Liedo, P., Harshman, L., Liu, X., Müller, H.G., Partridge, L. and Wang, J.L. (2002) Food pulses increase longevity and induce cyclical egg production in mediterranean fruit flies. Functional Ecology 16: 313-325.

 

1. Papadopoulos, N.T., Carey, J.R., Katsoyannos, B., Kouloussas, N., Müller, H.G. and Liu, X. (2002). Supine Behavior Indicates Deteriorating Health and Impending Death in Male Mediterranean Fruit Flies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 269, 1633-1637.

 

        My CV

 

       Miscellaneous

        Survival Guide for new researchers and graduate students

          JSTOR