Benmei Liu

Benmei Liu is a Chinese and American statistician specializing in survey methodology for the National Cancer Institute,[1] and the 2025–2026 president of the Washington Statistical Society.[2][3]

Education and career

Liu studied mathematics at the Ocean University of China in Qingdao, where she received a master's degree in 1999. She came to the US for graduate study in statistics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she received a second master's degree in 2001. She completed a Ph.D. in survey methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009.[1] Her doctoral dissertation, Hierarchical Bayes Estimation and Empirical Best Prediction of Small Area Proportions, was supervised by Partha Lahiri.[4]

After working for Westat, Liu joined the National Cancer Institute in 2009. There, she has worked as a survey statistician and program director in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences,[2] and in the Statistical Research and Applications Branch of the Surveillance Research Program.[1]

She was elected as president of the Washington Statistical Society for the 2024–2025 term as president-elect and for the 2025–2026 term as president.[2][3]

Recognition

Liu received the 2022 Presidents’ Award for outstanding service of the Washington Statistical Society.[2] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in its 2026 class of fellows.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Benmei Liu", Surveillance Research Program, National Cancer Institute, retrieved 2026-05-12
  2. 1 2 3 4 "JPSM PhD Alumni, Dr. Benmei Liu, elected as WSS President-Elect for 2024-2025", Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland, retrieved 2026-05-12
  3. 1 2 A Message from WSS's President, Benmei Liu, Washington Statistical Society, retrieved 2026-05-12
  4. ↑ Benmei Liu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ ASA Recognizes 2026 Founders and Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2026-05-12
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