Dr. Yi Liu is currently a post-doc and instructor in the Department of Civil and Environment Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in transportation engineering from Berkeley in 2015, MPhil degree in geotechnical engineering from HKUST in 2009, and bachelor degree in hydraulic engineering from Tsinghua in 2007. She is a recipient of Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Award, WTS Leadership Legacy Scholarship and Robert Horonjeff Memorial Grant. In Oct 2015, she was selected to attend the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Stars Workshop.
Dr. Liu’s research interests include air traffic management, airline economics, transportation operations, data analysis, and statistical modeling. Currently, Liu is working in a project funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center titled Similar Days in the National Airspace System (NAS). The objective of the project is to develop a decision support tool that enables traffic manager to find similar days in the NAS and hence learn the best air traffic management response strategies. Liu’s work focuses on building engines to find similar days using data mining techniques.
Dr. Liu is now teaching a core graduate course required by Transportation Program: analysis of transportation data. The course covers fundamentals of probability and statistics, statistical inference and statistical modeling. In addition to concepts and disciplines, the course also teaches how to use R programming language to make statistical inferences and perform statistical modeling.
