Dr. Haiyan Liu
- Position: Associate Professor of Statistical and Machine Learning
- Areas of expertise: Functional data analysis; longitudinal data analysis; time series analysis.
- Email: H.Liu1@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 9488
- Location: 10.18h School of Mathematics
Profile
I am an associate professor in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds. My research focuses on functional, longitudinal, and time series data. I joined the University of Leeds in 2016 as a (Turing) research fellow under the supervision of Prof. Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, became a University Academic Fellow in 2019, and was promoted in 2025. I completed my PhD in statistics under the supervision of Prof. Jan Beran at the University of Konstanz in 2016.
Research interests
I have primarily worked on first-generation functional data, which involves scalar observations recorded over a continuum, such as time. My works are mainly on functional principal component analysis under dependent errors or with informative missingness, functional regression models, and functional clustering models. More recently, I have become interested in second-generation functional data, which extends to more complex objects, such as brain images, traffic networks.
Research groups and institutes
- Statistics