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. My research back in undergraduate years was supervised by Professor Wenxin Zhou.

Interest:

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

Github page, Reading group

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/Preprints

1. "Epidemic Control using Stackelberg Mean Field Game with Budget Constraint." H. Liu, G. Dayanıklı. (2026, accepted at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2026)
2. "Modeling Epidemic Spread with Strategic Vaccination and Socialization: a Mean Field Game Analysis." H. Liu, G. Dayanıklı. (2026, submitted) [arXiv]
3. "Incorporating Authority Perception, Economic Status, and Behavioral Response in Infectious Disease Control." H. Liu, J. Yang, S. L. Larsen, P. P. Martinez, G. Dayanıklı. (2025, submitted) [arXiv]
4. "Regulation of Rumor Propagation via (Multi-Leader) Stackelberg Graphon Games." H. Liu , G. Dayanıklı. (2025, accepted at American Control Conference 2026) [arXiv]
5. "Modeling of Rumor Propagation in Large Populations with Network via Graphon Games." H. Liu, G. Dayanıklı. (2024, accepted at American Control Conference 2025) [arXiv]

Teaching

• STAT 107: Data Science Discovery (FA23, SP24)
• STAT 207: Data Science Exploration (FA24)
• STAT 432: Statistical Learning (SP25, SP26)
• PhD Qualifying Exam Preparation: Mathematical Statistics (STAT 511), Large Sample Theory (STAT 575) (SU25)

• 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)

Contact

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