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General Information

Full Name Manqing Liu (Pronounced as Man-ching Leo) (刘漫清)
Email manqingliu@g.harvard.edu

Education

  • 2021 - present
    PhD Candidate in Causal Machine Learning
    Harvard University, Boston, MA, US
    • Major
      • Epidemiology and Biostatistics
    • Secondary Field
      • Computer Science
    • Advisors
      • Dr. Andrew Beam
      • Dr. James Robins

Courses

  • Machine Learning (Graduate level)
    MIT
  • Quantitative Methods for NLP (Graduate level)
    MIT
  • Geometric Methods for Machine Learning (Graduate level)
    Harvard University
  • Stochastic Methods for Data Analysis, Inference and Optimization (Graduate level)
    Harvard University
  • Algorithms for Data Science (Graduate level)
    Harvard University
  • Linear Algebra and Learning from Data
    MIT
  • Introduction to Functional Analysis
    MIT
  • Probability (Graduate level)
    Harvard University
  • Statistical Inference I, II (Graduate level)
    Harvard University
  • Advanced Regression and Statistical Learning (Graduate level)
    Harvard University
  • System Development for Computational Science
    Harvard University
  • High Performance Computing for Science and Engineering (Graduate level)
    Harvard University
  • Causal Inference (Graduate level)
    Harvard University

Fellowship

  • 2024 June - August
    Technical AI safety Fellowship
    AI Safety Student Team
    • 8-week reading group on AI safety, covering topics such as neural network interpretability, robustness, and alignment.

Experience

  • 2023 - present
    PhD Researcher
    Harvard University, Causal Lab, Boston, MA, US
    • Aim 1
      • Engineered a noval DAG-aware transformer model to precisely estimate causal effects, addressing foundational challenges in unifying causal effect estimation under various scenarios.
    • Aim 2
      • Integrated doubly robust estimators into Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), enabling large language models to perform complex, multi-step reasoning and planning with higher accuracy in real-world scenarios.
  • 2017 - 2021
    Biostatistician
    Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, US
    • Collaborated with clinical researchers, biostatisticians, and data scientists to harness electronic health record (EHR) data for machine learning applications.
    • Developed and deployed predictive models to forecast patient outcomes, enabling data-driven decision-making in healthcare settings.
    • Led cross-functional efforts to integrate machine learning workflows into clinical practice, optimizing efficiency and enhancing patient care outcomes.

Open Source Projects

  • 2024-now
    DAG-aware-transformer
    • Our codes for the paper "DAG-aware Transformer for Causal Inference" published in NeurIPS 2024, CRL workshop.