Jiajuan (John) Liang, Ph.D. (Hong Kong Baptist University), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing & Quantitative Analysis. He joined the University of New Haven in September, 2001 and was awarded as the UNH University Research Scholar (2010-2013). His teaching areas include Business Statistics and Business Mathematics for undergraduate business majors, and Probability and Statistics for MBA students. Dr. Liang's research interests mainly focus on general statistical methodologies and its applications in business, graphical statistical methods, dimension-reduction techniques in high-dimensional data analysis and its implications in large-scale capital asset pricing models in quantitative finance, and computer-aided teaching methods for quantitative courses for business majors.

He has published over 30 papers in peer-reviewed statistical journals, professional journals in business research and pedagogy, and book chapters by prestigious publishers. Among his joint papers, 1) the paper "Testing Multivariate Uniformity and Its Applications" was published in Mathematics of Computation (2001), the leading journal of American Mathematical Society and is ranked as the top journal in computational mathematics; 2) the paper "A New EM Algorithm for Fitting Two-Level Structural Equation Models" was published in Psychometrika (2004), the leading journal of Psychometric Society and is ranked as the top journal in mathematical and statistical psychology; 3) the paper "Some Necessary Tests for Spherical Symmetry" was published in The Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2008), the leading journal of the Japanese Statistical Society; 4) the book chapter "A Unified Approach to Two-level Structural Equation Models and Linear Mixed Effects Models" (2008) was published in Lecture Notes in Statistics of the prestigious Springer-Verlag, New York; and 5) the paper "A Multivariate Normal Plot to Detect Non-normality, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2009), one of the leading journals of the American Statistical Association and is ranked as the top journal in graphical statistics. Up to the year 2011, Dr. Liang's research papers have been cited at least 185 times by peer-reviewed and professional journals listed in Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com).

Dr. Liang actively involves in professional and academic activities such as serving as frequent referees for peer-reviewed statistical journals such as: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B and C)Computational Statistics & Data AnalysisMetrikaCommunications in Statistics –Theory and MethodsTESTJournal of Multivariate AnalysisStatisticsMultivariate Behavioral ResearchJournal of Statistical Planning & InferenceBiometrical JournalStatistics in MedicineStatistics Education Research JournalPsychometrikaStatistics and Probability Letters. Dr. Liang is an active member of the American Statistical Association. For more information about Dr. Liang's research and teaching, please visit his personal website: http://newton.newhaven.edu/jliang.

Data analysis methods

statistical model fitting

computational methods for complicated statistical models

statistical methods for management decision making

1) Mr. Daniel Kuo Kwok Chuen Postgraduate Scholarship in the academic year 1996-97 in Hong Kong Baptist University

2) Summer Faculty Fellowship Awards (Summer Research Grants) for the academic years 2002-2010 at the University of New Haven

3) Botwinik Travel Award for the academic year 2002-2003 at the University of New Haven

4) SummerResearchFundAwardfortheacademicyear2003/2004,05/06,07/08 at the University of New Haven

5) University of New Haven 2007 Excellence in Research/Creative Activity Award

6) Award of University Research Scholar at the University of New Haven for three years 2010-2013

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Psychometrika

International Statistical Review

Behaviormetrika

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Statistics and Probability Letters

Statistica Sinica

Statistics Education Research Journal 

Biometrical Journal,Communications in Statistics

Assistant Professor (1/1988--6/1994)

Department of Statistics, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, China.

Teaching courses:

1) Introduction to Probability and Statistics

2) Statistical Principle for Business and Economics

3) Regression and Linear Models

4) Multivariate Statistical Analysis

 5) Advanced Mathematics

Lecturer (4--6/1999)

Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching course:

Statistics 110B, Data Analysis: from elementary to intermediate, for undergraduates

Lecturer (4--6/2000)

Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching courses:

1) Statistics 100C, The Theory of Linear Models, for undergraduates

2) Statistics 10, Statistical Reasoning, for undergraduates

Lecturer (10--12/2000)

Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching courses:

1) Statistics M11, Introduction to Statistical Methods for Business and Economics; for undergraduates

2) Statistics 110A, Applied Statistics, for undergraduates;

Lecturer (4--6/2001)

Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching course: Statistics 110A, Applied Statistics, for undergraduates

Assistant Professor (9/2001—8/2007)

Department of Quantitative Analysis, School of Business, University of New Haven, Connecticut

Teaching courses:

1) Probability and Statistics for business majors (for undergraduates)

2) Business Mathematics (for undergraduates)

3) Statistics for Managers (for MBA students)

4) Operations Management (for MBA students)

Associate Professor (9/2007--)

Department of Management, College of Business, University of New Haven, Connecticut

Teaching courses:

1) Probability and Statistics for business majors (for undergraduates)

2) Business Mathematics (for undergraduates)

3) Statistics for Managers (for MBA students)

Jiajuan Liang CV