Huaning Steven Liu

I am a Ph.D. student in Statistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I work on game theory under large populations, advised by Professor Gökçe Dayanıklı.

Interest:

• Mean Field (Graphon; Stackelberg-type) Games
• Quantile and Expected Shortfall Regression

Github page

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2023.8 - )
• B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Data Science. University of California San Diego (2019.9 - 2023.6)

Publications

1. "Modeling of Rumor Propagation in Large Populations with Network via Graphon Games." H. Liu, G. Dayanıklı. (2024, preprint, accepted at American Control Conference 2025).

Teaching

• STAT 107: Data Science Discovery (FA23, SP24)
• STAT 207: Data Science Exploration (FA24)
• STAT 432: Statistical Learning (SP25)

• Math 185: Introductory Computational Statistics (SP21)
• DSC 20: Python Programming and Data Structures (WI21, SP21, FA21, WI23)
• DSC 30: Java Data Structures and Algorithms (SU21, SP22, FA22, SP23)
• COGS 9: Introduction to Data Science (FA20)

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