Jamie Liu

PhD Student in Statistics

Stanford, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Teaching Assistant at Stanford University

    STATS 117 (Introduction to Probability Theory) ~ Autumn 2025 DATASCI 112 (Principles of Data Science) ~ Winter 2026

  • Teaching Fellow at Harvard University

    STAT 110 (Introduction to Probability) ~ Fall 2023, Fall 2024 STAT 111 (Introduction to Statistical Inference) ~ Spring 2024, Spring 2025 Created material for and led small group sections, hosted office hours, aided students on course-wide Ed Discussion forums, graded homework and exams. Co-led a workshop on an introduction to programming in R.

  • Undergraduate Research at Harvard University

    Conducted research on variational inference techniques for Bayesian analysis of ODE-based dynamical systems under the supervision of Professor S. C. Samuel Kou in the Department of Statistics. Developed Mitotic Stein Variational Gradient Descent as part of my undergraduate thesis, which was awarded a 2025 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work.

  • Summer Intern at GV20 Therapeutics

    May - August, 2022 May - August, 2023 Helped to plan and begin implementation of database migration to Amazon RDS. Used Python to clean and format data in preparation for migration. Drafted database usage documentation. Wrote Python code to efficiently and ethically scrape RNA-Seq metadata.