[1] Her research concerns robust statistics and nonparametric statistics, including the first formulation of simplicial depth.
[PNAS][AS90] Liu earned her Ph.D. in statistics from Columbia University in 1983, under the supervision of John Raphael Van Ryzin,[2] and joined the Rutgers faculty at that time.
She became a distinguished professor at Rutgers in 2001,[3] and department chair in 2005.
[4] Liu became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2005.
[5] She is also a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.