Ivy I-Ming Liu is a Taiwanese and New Zealander statistician specializing in categorical and ordinal data.
She works as an associate professor and as head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
[1] Liu is originally from Taiwan[2] and has a master's degree from Iowa State University.
[1] She completed her Ph.D. in 1995 at the University of Florida under the supervision of Alan Agresti.
[2] She initially chose to work in categorical data with the hope that she could collaborate with her husband, then studying sociology.