Kung-Yee Liang (Chinese: 梁賡義; pinyin: Liáng Gēng yí) is a Taiwanese biostatistician known for his work on generalized estimating equations, which he introduced together with Scott Zeger in 1986.
In 1982, Liang completed his PhD in biostatistics at the University of Washington under the supervison of Norman Breslow.
[3] That same year, he joined the biostatistics department faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he became a full professor in 1991 and stayed until he returned to Taiwan in 2010.
[4] Returning to his home country, Liang moved from conducting research towards administrative and leadership roles.
In August 2010, Liang became president of National Yang-Ming University, a position he remained in until November 2017.