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General Information
Full Name | Tuo Liu |
Nick Name | LT |
Languages | English, Chinese |
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 (ongoing)
- major & minor
- 2020
MS
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- major
- Major -> Environmental Hlth Sci
- GPA -> 3.80/4.00
- major
Experience
- 2022/8-Now
Research Associate
Department of Community, Environment, and Policy, University of Arizona
- FFCCS metabolomics data analyses & 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
Open Source Projects
- 2022/8
Arizona Pesticide Use Shiny Application
- A web-based Shiny application built with R to explore pesticide use in the State of Arizona, 1992-2016.
- 2021/12
Expense Tracker
- A web-based application built with Streamlit, Python for tracking personal expenses.
- 2020/05
Where to open a Chinese restaurant in Toronto?
- A project exploring the best location to open a new Chinese restaurant in Toranto using Web-scraping, Foursquare API, Folium Map & Machine Learning with Python.
Honors and Awards
- 2023
- One Health Research Initiative GRA Award ($50,000)
- 2021
- PhD scholarship ($10,000)
Research Summary
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Metabolomics.
- Urinary Metabolomics in Structural Firefighters:Pre-, and Post-fire exposure
- Urinary Metabolomics in Structural Firefighters:Differential Metabolic Profiles by Hispanic Ethnicity
- Urinary Metabolomics in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Firefighters:A Comparison with Structural Firefighters
- Evaluating Differential Metabolic Profiles in Prostate Cancer Patients by Prostate Cancer Risk
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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).
Other Interests
- Hobbies: fishing, bodybuilding, cooking.