Kung-Yee Liang Election Year 2002 President Office, National Health Research Institutes
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Current Positions
President, National Health Research Institutes
Education
B.A. in Mathematics, National Tsing Hua Univ., R.O.C. (1973)
M.S. in Statistics, Univ. of South Carolina, U.S.A. (1979)
Ph.D. in Biomathematics-Biostatistics, Univ. of Washington, U.S.A. (1982)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Univ. (1982-1986)
Joint Appointment, Dept. of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Univ. (1984-2010)
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Univ. (1986-1990)
Professor and Graduate Program Director (1996-2003), Dept. of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Univ. (1991-2010)
Vice President, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan (2003-2006)
Acting President, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan (2006)
President, National Yang-Ming University (2010-2017)
President, National Health Research Institutes (2017—)
Specialties
Statistical Genetics, Genetics Epidemiology
Awards and Honors
American Statistical Association's Snedecor Award for best publication in Biometry for 1986 (1987)
American Public Health Association's Spiegelman Award (1990)
Member of Alpha Chapter, Delta Omega Society (1991)
Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association (1995)
Advising, Mentoring and Teaching Recognition Award, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (1997)
2000 Bernard G. Greenberg Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina (2000)
Academician, Academia Sinica, R.O.C. (2002)
Distinguished Alumni Award, National Tsing-Hua University (2006)
American Public Health Association's Rema Lapouse Award (2010)
Elected Member, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)(2012)
Internaitional Statistical Institute’s Karl Pearson Prize (2015)
Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine, U.S.A. (2015)
The Heritage Award, Johns Hopkins Alumni Association (2016)
Elected Member, Society of Scholars, Johns Hopkins University (2016)