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General Information

Full Name Tuo Liu
Nick Name LT
Languages Chinese, English

Education

  • 2025
    PhD (expected)
    University of Arizona, USA
    • major & minor
      • Major:Environmental Hlth Sci
      • Minor:Biostatistics
      • Certificate:Statistics & Data Science
      • GPA:4.00/4.00
    • Major Syllabus
      • Applied & Advanced Exposure Science
      • Epidemiology
      • Toxicology
      • Environmental Metabolomics
    • Statistics & Biostatistics Syllabus
      • MATH 564:Theory of Probability
      • MATH 566:Theory of Statistics
      • MATH 571A:Advanced Statistical Regression Analysis
      • MATH 571B:Experimental Design and Analysis
      • BIOS 576:Applied Biostatistics
      • BIOS 647:Categorical Data Analysis
      • BIOS 684:General Linear and Mixed Effects Models
    • Machine Learning Syllabus
      • MATH 574M:Statistical Machine Learning
      • Coursera:Deep Learning Specification
  • 2020
    MS
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
    • major
      • Major -> Environmental Hlth Sci
      • GPA -> 3.80/4.00

Research Experience

  • 2022/8-Now
    Research Associate
    Department of Community, Environment, and Policy, University of Arizona
    • FFCCS metabolomics data analysis & management
    • AZ HEROES proteomics data analysis
  • 2021/8-2022/7
    Research Assistant
    Department of Community, Environment, and Policy, University of Arizona
    • Tucson fire fighter metabolomics data analysis
    • Arizona pesticide use and birth outcome study data analysis
    • Multi-omics epigenetic age and metabolomics analysis
  • 2020/10-2021/5
    Research Assistant
    SCIES, Guangzhou, China
  • 2019/5-2020/8
    Research Assistant-Intern
    China NIEH, Beijing, China

Research Projects

  • Metabolomics
    • Urinary Metabolomics in Structure Firefighters:Pre-, and Post-fire exposure
    • Urinary Metabolomics in Structure Firefighters:Differential Metabolic Profiles by Hispanic Ethnicity
    • Urinary Metabolomics in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Men Firefighters:A Comparison with Structure Firefighters
    • Urinary Metabolomics in Women Firefighters:Differential Metabolic Profiles by Structure Fire Exposure
    • Evaluating Differential Metabolic Profiles in Prostate Cancer Patients by Prostate Cancer Risk
  • Proteomics
    • Proteomic Profiling to Investigate Biomarkers and Biological Functions Associated with Long COVID in Frontline Workers
    • Serum Proteomics in Omicron SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough:a nested case-control study within a prospective cohort of frontline workers from eight locations in the United States (US).

Talks

  • Differential Metabolic Profiles by WUI Fires:A Comparison With Structure Fires, FFCCS Data Brown Bag Meeting, 2024
  • Differential Metabolites by Structure Fire Exposure in Male Firefighters., Arizona Cancer Center Scientific Retreat, 2022

DS Projects

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • One Health Research Initiative GRA Award ($50,000)
  • 2021
    • PhD scholarship ($10,000)

Certificates

  • Deep Learning Specification. Coursera, 2024
  • IBM Data Science Professional Certificate. Coursera, 2020

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: fishing, bodybuilding, cooking.