Hanzhong Liu Associate Professor

Research Areas: Causal Infenrece, High-dimensional Statistics, Big Data, and Machine Learning.

Office: Room 711, Lyu Dalong Building, Tsinghua University


Phone: +86-10-62780575


Email: lhz2016@tsinghua.edu.cn


职称 Associate Professor 地址 Room 711, Lyu Dalong Building, Tsinghua University
电话 +86-10-62780575 邮箱 lhz2016@tsinghua.edu.cn
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Academic Position

  • Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, 2024/07 – present

  • Tenured Associate Professor, Center for Statistical Science, Tsinghua University, 2024/01 – 2024/07

  • Associate Professor, Center for Statistical Science, Tsinghua University, 2018/12 – 2024/01

  • Assistant Professor, Center for Statistical Science, Tsinghua University, 2016/08 – 2018/12

  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, 2014/07 – 2016/06


Education

  • B.S.    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2005/09 – 2009/06

  • Ph.D.  Peking University, Beijing, China, 2009/09 – 2014/06


Research and Visiting Experience

  • Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, 2012/09 – 2014/04


Research Interests

  • Causal Inference

  • High-dimensional Statistics

  • Big Data

  • Machine Learning


Selected Publications

  • Xin Lu and Hanzhong Liu* (2024+). Tyranny-of-the-minority regression adjustment in randomized experiments. Journal of the American Statistical Association, in press.

  • Hanzhong Liu, Jiyang Ren and Yuehan Yang* (2024). Randomization-based joint central limit theorem and efficient covariate adjustment in randomized block 2K factorial experiments. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 119(545), 136-150.

  • Xin Lu, Tianle Liu, Hanzhong Liu* and Peng Ding (2023). Design-based theory for cluster rerandomization. Biometrika, 110(2), 467-483.

  • Hanzhong Liu, Fuyi Tu and Wei Ma* (2023). Lasso-adjusted treatment effect estimation under covariate-adaptive randomization. Biometrika, 110(2), 431-447.

  • Xinhe Wang#, Tingyu Wang# and Hanzhong Liu* (2023). Rerandomization in stratified randomized experiments. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 118(542), 1295-1304.

  • Hanzhong Liu and Yuehan Yang* (2020). Regression-adjusted average treatment effect estimates in stratified randomized experiments, Biometrika, 107(4), 935-948.

  • Adam Bloniarz#, Hanzhong Liu#, Cunhui Zhang, Jasjeet S. Sekhon and Bin Yu* (2016). Lasso adjustments of treatment effect estimates in randomized experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(27), 7383-7390.


Other Publications

  • Wenqi Shi, Anqi Zhao and Hanzhong Liu* (2024+). Rerandomization and covariate adjustment in split-plot designs. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, in press.

  • Ke Zhu, Hanzhong Liu* and Yuehan Yang* (2024+). Design-based theory for Lasso adjustment in randomized block experiments with a general blocking scheme. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, in press.

  • Ke Zhu and Hanzhong Liu* (2024). Rejoinder to Reader Reaction “On exact randomization-based covariate-adjusted confidence intervals” by Jacob Fiksel, Biometrics, 80(2), ujae052.

  • Fuyi Tu, Wei Ma and Hanzhong Liu* (2024). A unified framework for covariate adjustment under stratified randomization, Stat, 13(4), e70016.

  • Yujia Gu, Hanzhong Liu and Wei Ma* (2023). Regression-based multiple treatment effect estimation under covariate-adaptive randomization. Biometrics, 79(4), 2869-2880.

  • Ke Zhu and Hanzhong Liu* (2023). Pair-switching rerandomization. Biometrics, 79(3), 2127-2142.

  • Hanzhong Liu* (2023). Bootstrapping inference of average treatment effect in completely randomized experiments with high-dimensional covariates. Biostatistics & Epidemiology, 6(2), 203-220.

  • Wei Ma, Fuyi Tu and Hanzhong Liu* (2022). Regression analysis for covariate-adaptive randomization: A robust and efficient inference perspective. Statistics in Medicine, 41, 5645-5661.

  • Ke Zhu and Hanzhong Liu* (2022). Confidence intervals for parameters in high-dimensional sparse vector autoregression. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 168, 107383.

  • Ke Zhu, Yingkai Jiang, Xiang Wang, Zhicheng Shi, Chao Yang*, Hanzhong Liu* and Ke Deng* (2022). A new framework of customized production product certification based on the combination of domain knowledge and data inference (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics, 38(4): 581-602.

  • Hanzhong Liu and Jinzhu Jia* (2022). On estimation error bounds of the Elastic Net when p >> n. Statistics, 56(3), 498-517.

  • Hanzhong Liu* (2021). Comment on `Inference after covariate-adaptive randomization: aspects of methodology and theory'. Statistical Theory and Related Fields, 5(3), 192-193.

  • Hanzhong Liu, Xin Xu and Jingyi Jessica Li* (2020). A bootstrap Lasso + Partial Ridge method to construct confidence intervals for parameters in high-dimensional sparse linear models. Statistica Sinica, 30, 1333-1355.

  • Hanzhong Liu and Bin Yu* (2017). Comments on: High dimensional simultaneous inference with the bootstrap. Test, 26, 740-750.

  • Lan Wu, Yuehan Yang* and Hanzhong Liu (2014). Nonnegative-lasso and application in index tracking. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 70, 116-126.

  • Hanzhong Liu and Bin Yu* (2013). Asymptotic properties of Lasso+mLS and Lasso+Ridge in sparse high-dimensional linear regression. Electronic Journal of Statistic, 7, 3124-3169.


Working Paper

  • Haoyang Yu, Wei Ma and Hanzhong Liu* (2024). Minimax optimal design with spillover and carryover effects, under review.

  • Tingxuan Han#, Ke Zhu#, Hanzhong Liu* and Ke Deng* (2024). Imputation-based randomization tests for randomized experiments with interference, under review.

  • Yujia Gu, Hanzhong Liu and Wei Ma* (2024). Incorporating external data for analyzing randomized clinical trials: A transfer learning approach, under review.

  • Xin Lu#, Hongzi Li# and Hanzhong Liu* (2024). Estimation and inference of average treatment effects under heterogeneous additive treatment effect model, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology), R&R.

  • Hongzi Li, Wei Ma, Yingying Ma* and Hanzhong Liu* (2024). Density and treatment effect estimation under covariate-adaptive randomization with heavy-tailed outcomes, under review.

  • Jiahui Xin, Hanzhong Liu and Wei Ma* (2024). Inference under covariate-adaptive randomization with many strata, under review.

  • Haoyang Yu, Ke Zhu* and Hanzhong Liu (2024). Sharp variance estimator and causal bootstrap in stratified randomized experiments. Statistics in Medicine, Major revision.


Teaching

  • Graduate courses

    • Advanced Probability Theory II (2017-2024/Spring)

  • Undergraduate courses

    • Statistical Inference (2017-2024/Fall)


Honors and Awards

  • Being Selected for the National Youth Talent Plan, 2022

  • Excellence in Research Award (department-level), Tsinghua University, 2017, 2020


Ph.D. Supervised

  • Ke Zhu (graduated; Postdoctoral Research Scholar jointly affiliated with North Carolina State University and Duke University)

  • Jiyang Ren (graduated; AstraZeneca at Shanghai)

  • Xin Lu

  • Hongzi Li

  • Haoyang Yu

  • Wanjia Fu

  • Honghao Zhang


Service

  • 2024/04-2028/04  全国工业统计学教学研究会青年统计学家协会理事、副秘书长

  • 2022/12-2026/12  全国工业统计学教学研究会理事

  • 2021/09-2026/09  北京应用统计学会理事

  • 2019/04-2023/04  全国工业统计学教学研究会青年统计学家协会理事

  • 2017/03-2021/03  中国现场统计研究会计算统计分会副秘书长


Organizing Conference

  • Co-organizer, The 4th PKU-Tsinghua Colloquium on Statistics, Beijing, China, Jun 3, 2019

  • Co-organizer, The IASC-ARS 25th Anniversary Conference and the CASC 2nd Annual Conference, Beijing, China, Nov 9-11, 2018

  • Co-organizer, Tsinghua Symposium on Statistics and Data Science for Young Scholars, Beijing, China, Nov 17-19, 2017


Journal Reviewing

  • AOS, JASA, JRSSB, Econometrica, JOE, AOAS, JMLR, ICML, etc


Funding

  • PI, Natural Science Foundation of Beijing, 2025-2028

  • PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2021-2024

  • PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018-2020

  • Participant, National Key Research and Development Plan, 2024-2027

  • Participant, Guo Qiang Institute of Tsinghua University, 2021-2023

  • Participant, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018-2021

  • Participant, National Key Research and Development Plan, 2017-2020