Xulei (Shirley) Liu Biostatistician IV
E-mail: xulei.liu@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.322.9362 Fax: 615.343.4924	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics 2525 West End, Ste. 11000 Nashville, TN 37203

Education

Master of Science in Biostatistics
University of Illinois

Work Experience

Biostatistician IV, November 2016 - Present
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

Biostatistician III, May 2008 - October 2016
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

Biostatistician II, April 2005 - April 2008
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

Computer Skills

• Statistical software: R, SAS, STATA, PS
• Reporting software/tools: knitr and LaTex
• Operating systems: Linux, Windows

University Presentations and Teaching

How to De-identify Data
Vanderbilt University Clinical Research Center Research Skills Workshop, March 7, 2008
Cancer Biostatistics Center of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, May 5, 2008

Continuous Quality Improvement Projects

• Member: MS Staff Recruitment Committee

Research Interests

• Longitudinal analysis
• Survival analysis
• Meta-analysis
• Observational studies
• Randomized controlled trials

Continuing Education

• Bayesian Evidence Synthesis in Medicine by Heinz Schmidli and David Ohlssen, ENAR Meeting, March 2016
• Interactive Data Visualization in R With Shiny Ggplot2 by Garrett Grolemund, ENAR Meeting, March 2016
• Clinical Trial Designs for Validating Prognostic and Predictive Markers in Oncology by Daniel Sargent, ENAR Meeting, March 2016
• New Paradigm for Finding the Subset of Patients by Richard Simon and Noah Simon, ENAR Meeting, March 2016
• Introduction to High Throughput DNA Sequence Data Analysis Using R / Bioconductor by Martin Morgan, ENAR Meeting, March 2016
• Quantile Regression for Survival Analysis by Limin Peng, ENAR Meeting, March 2016
• Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell Jr, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, March 2015
• Comparative Effectiveness Research: Challenges and Opportunities by Sharon-Lise Normand, ENAR Meeting, April 2012
• Determining Sample Size and Power in Studying Planning: nQuery Advisor by Janet Elashoff and Brian Sullivan, Joint Statistical Meeting, August 2008
• Nonparametric Regression Modeling in SAS Software by Weijie Cai, Joint Statistical Meeting, August 2008
• Applied Longitudinal Analysis by Garrett Fitzmaurice, Joint Statistical Meeting, August 2007
• Power and Sample Size Analysis by John Castelloe, Joint Statistical Meeting, August 2006
• Analysis of Clinical Trials by Christy Chuang-Stein, Joint Statistical Meeting, August 2006
• An Introduction to Statistical Modeling with PROC GLIMMIX by Oliver Schabenberger, ENAR Meeting, March 2006
• Joint Modeling of Repeated Measurements and Event Time Data by Edward F. Vonesh, ENAR Meeting, March 2006
• Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell Jr, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, January 2006
• Clinical Trials by Yu Shyr, Vanderbilt University (a 3 credit graduate level MPH/MSCI course), November 2005
• Regularly attend department seminars, MS meetings, biostatistics clinics and R clinics.