Research Staff

李克昭

Li, Ker-Chau

Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica
Taipei 11529, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel: 886-2-27875696
E-mail: kcli@stat.sinica.edu.tw


Special links Research Interests
  • Bioinformatics, systems biology, lung cancer studies,
    High dimensional data analysis, Large ensembles of time series, Medical image analysis, Machine learning, Statistical graphics, Bayesian computation, Regression, Censoring, Experimental design, Survey sampling.

    Li is best known for introducing sliced inverse regression (SIR) and principal Hessian direction (PHD), two fundamental dimension reduction methods for high dimensional data analysis. Starting from 2000, his research interest turned to the emerging field of computation/mathematics/statistics in genome biology. In 2002, he published a paper in Proceedings of Academy of Science, featuring the novel method of liquid association (LA) for microarray gene expression analysis. He is currently leading a research group in UCLA and in Academia Sinica to continue the development of methods for utilizing multiple sources of gene expression profiling, genetic markers, complex disease phenotypes and traits. A website http://kiefer.stat2.sinica.edu.tw/LAP3 offers on-line computation based on LA and related methods for gene expression studies. He is also collaborating with Dr. Pan Chyr Yang of National Taiwan University and his colleagues on integrative cancer biology.

    Click for larger image Liquid association. (a) Association between genes X and Y as mediated by gene Z. When gene Z is expressed at the high level (red), a positive correlation between X and Y is observed. The association changes as the expression of Z is lowered. It eventually becomes a negative trend (green). There are two basic ways (shown in panels b and c) to apply the liquid association (LA) scoring system to guide a genome-wide search. (b) When two genes X and Y are given, compute LA score LA(X, Y|Z) for every gene Z first and then output a short list of high score genes Z1, Z2, and so on. (c) When only one gene X is given, compute LA score LA(X, Y|Z) for every pair of genes X,Y first and then output a short list of high score gene pairs Y1,Z1, Y2,Z2, and so on. Li et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:R205 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r205

  • Liquid association. Correlation is a simple and powerful method for analyzing gene expression data.Two genes with positively correlated expression profiles are likely to be functionally associated. They may participate in the same biological process. However, functionally associated genes may not be correlated for a variety of reasons. For instance, they may not be regulated at the transcription level. Another common situation is that most genes have multiple functions. Depending on the cellular needs, co-expressed genes may become uncorrelated or even turn into contra-expressed. Liquid association (LA), as opposed to "steady" association, is designed to quantify the change of correlation between two genes as a relevant cellular state variable changes. There is no need to specify the state variable explicitly. A highlighted example is the elucidation of gene expression for the urea cycle in yeast. This pathway controls both the biosynthesis and degradation of the amino acid, arginine. LA is able to find the correct genes which have to be turned on, as well as the correct genes which have to be turned off at the same time, so that any wasteful immediate degradation of newly synthesized arginine can be avoided.

  • Sliced inverse regression (SIR). Many statistical methods are known to suffer from urse of dimensionality? they break down easily when dealing with high dimensional data. How to reduce dimensionality is a long-standing issue. Ad hoc methods such as principal component analysis and partial least squares have been advocated. Yet the associated issue about possible nformation loss due to improper dimension reduction is rarely addressed. The SIR methodology helps reshape this area by presenting an effective dimension reduction framework for theorizing both issues.

  • Principal Hessian direction. Another effective dimension reduction method.

Education

1981 Ph.D., Statistics, University of California, Berkeley. (Advisor: Jack Kiefer)
1975 B.S., Mathematics, National Taiwan University

Professional Experience

2006-present Director and Distinguished Research Fellow of Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
2000-2002 graduate vice chair, Statistics Department, UCLA
1999-present Professor, Statistics Department, UCLA
1989-present Professor, Mathematics Department, UCLA
1984-1989 Associate Professor, Mathematics Department, UCLA
1981-1984 Assistant Professor, Statistics Department, Purdue University

Professional Activities

1999-2002 Co-Editor of Statistica Sinica
1989-1994 Associate editor of Annals of Statistics
1991-1999 Associate editor of Statistica Sinica
1993-2001 Associate editor of Computational Statistics

Honors

2003 Medallion Lecturer, IMS; 1993 Guggenheim Fellow
1991 NSF/ASA/NIST fellow; 1990 JASA theory and methods Editor's invited speaker in Joint Statistical Meetings
1989 IMS Fellow; 1981 elected member of Phi Beta Kappa
1981 B. Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley

Selected Publications

[1] Tomohiro Ando, Ker-Chau Li, 2017, “A weight-relaxed model averaging approach for high dimensional generalized linear models”, ANNALS OF STATISTICS, 45(6), 2654-2679. (SCIE) (IF: 2.65; SCI ranking: 13.7%)

[2] Chen HY, Yu SL, Ho BC, Su KY, Hsu YC, Chang CS, Li YC, Yang SY, Hsu PY, Ho H, Chang YH, Chen CY, Yang HI, Hsu CP, Yang TY, Chen KC, Hsu KH, Tseng JS, Hsia JY, Chuang CY, Yuan S, Lee MH, Liu CH, Wu GI, Hsiung CA, Chen YM, Wang CL, Huang MS, Yu CJ, Chen KY, Tsai YH, Su WC, Chen HW, Chen JJ, Chen CJ, Chang GC, Yang PC, Li KC*., 2015, “R331W Missense Mutation of Oncogene YAP1 Is a Germline Risk Allele for Lung Adenocarcinoma With Medical Actionability”, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 33(20), 2303-2310. (SCIE) (IF: 32.956; SCI ranking: 2%)

[3] Tomohiro Ando & Ker-Chau Li* , 2014, “A model-averaging approach for high-dimensional”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 109(505), 254-265. (SCIE) (IF: 3.989; SCI ranking: 3.2%)

[4] Yi-Chiung Hsu, Hsuan-Yu Chen, Shinsheng Yuan, Sung-Liang Yu, Chia-Hung Lin, Guani Wu, Pan-Chyr Yang and Ker-Chau Li*, 2013, “Genome-wide analysis of three-way interplay between gene expression, cancer cell invasion and anti-cancer compound sensitivity”, BMC Medicine, 11, 106. (SCIE) (IF: 6.782; SCI ranking: 9.1%)

[5] Shinsheng Yuan, Sung-Liang Yu, Hsuan-Yu Chen, Yi-Chiung Hsu, Kang-Yi Su, Huei-Wen Chen, Chih-Yi Chen, Chong-Jen Yu, Jin-Yuan Shih, Yih-Leong Chang, Chiou-Ling Cheng, Chung-Ping Hsu, Jiun-Yi Hsia, Chien-Yu Lin, Guani Wu, Chia-Hsin Liu, Chin-Di Wang, Kang-Chung Yang, Yi-Wei Chen, Yi-Ling Lai, Chu-Chun Hsu, Tai-Ching Lin, Tsung-Ying Yang, Kun-Cheieh Chen, Kuo-Hsuan Hsu, Jeremy J.W. Chen, Gee-Chen Chang, Ker-Chau Li*, and Pan-Chyr Yang, 2011, “Clustered Genomic Alterations in Chromosome 7p Dictate Outcomes and Targeted Treatment Responses of Lung Adenocarcinoma With EGFR-Activating Mutations”, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 29(25), 3535-3442. (SCIE) (IF: 32.956; SCI ranking: 2%)

[6] Xuelian Wei and Ker-Chau Li* , 2010, “Exploring the within- and between-class correlation distributions for tumor classification”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(15), 6737-6742. (SCIE) (IF: 9.412; SCI ranking: 11.3%)

[7] Yijing Shen, Wei Sun, and Ker-Chau Li*, 2010, “Dynamically weighted clustering with noise set”, Bioinformatics, 26(3), 341-347. (SCIE) (IF: 5.61; SCI ranking: 5.1%,7.8%,12.8%)

[8] Yi-Chiung Hsu, Shinsheng Yuan, Hsuan-Yu Chen, Sung-Liang Yu, Chia-Hsin Liu,Pin-Yen Hsu, Guani Wu,Chia-Hung Lin, Gee-Chen Chang, Ker-Chau Li*, and Pan-Chyr Yang, 2009, “A four-gene signature from NCI-60 cell line for survival prediction in non–small cell lung cancer”, Clinical Cancer Research, 15(23), 7309-7315. (SCIE) (IF: 10.107; SCI ranking: 7.4%)

[9] Ching-Ti Liu; Shinsheng Yuan; Ker-Chau Li*, 2008, “Patterns of co-expression for protein complexes by size in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”, Nucleic Acids Research, 37(2), 526-532. (SCIE) (IF: 11.502; SCI ranking: 5.1%)

[10] Sung-Liang Yu, Hsuan-Yu Chen, Gee-Chen Chang, Chih-Yi Chen, Huei-Wen Chen, Sher Singh, Chiou-Ling Cheng, Chong-Jen Yu, Yung-Chie Lee, Han-Shiang Chen, Te-Jen Su, Ching-Cheng Chiang, Han-Ni Li, Qi-Sheng Hong, Hsin-Yuan Su, Chun-Chieh Chen, Wan-Jiun Chen, Chun-Chi Liu, Wing-Kai Chan,Wei J. Chen, Ker-Chau Li, Jeremy J.W. Chen, and Pan-Chyr Yang, Li, Chen, Yang contributed equally to directing the research, 2008, “MicroRNA Signature Predicts Survival and Relapse in Lung Cancer”, Cancer Cell, 13, 48-57. (SCIE) (IF: 26.602; SCI ranking: 2.9%,2.1%)

[11] Li, K.C.*, Palotie A*, Yuan, S, Bronnikov, D., Chen D., Wei X., Choi, O., Saarela J., Peltonen L. , 2007, “Finding disease candidate genes by liquid association”, Genome Biology, 8(10), R205-R205. (SCIE) (IF: 10.806; SCI ranking: 3.2%,4.5%)

[12] Yuan, S., and Li. K.C.*, 2007, “Context-dependent Clustering for Dynamic Cellular State Modeling of Microarray Gene Expression”, Bioinformatics, 23(22), 3039-3047. (SCIE) (IF: 5.61; SCI ranking: 5.1%,7.8%,12.8%)

[13] Li, K.C.*, Ching-Ti Liu, Wei Sun, Shinsheng Yuan and Tianwei Yu, 2004, “A system for enhancing genome-wide co-expression dynamics study”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101, 15561-15566. (SCIE) (IF: 9.412; SCI ranking: 11.3%)

[14] Xie, J., Li, K.C., and Bina, M., 2004, “A Bayesian Insertion/Deletion Algorithm for Distant Protein Motif Searching via Entropy Filtering”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99, 409-420.

[15] Li, K.C., Aragon, Y, Shedden, K. and Thomos-Agan C., C., 2003, “Dimension reduction for multivariate response data”, Journal of the American Statistical Associations, 98, 99-106. (SCIE) (IF: 3.989; SCI ranking: 3.2%)

[16] Li, K.C., 2002, “Genome-wide co-expression dynamics: theory and application”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 99, 16875-16880. (SCIE) (IF: 9.412; SCI ranking: 11.3%)

[17] Li, K.C. and Shedden. K., 2002, “Identification of shared common components in large ensembles of time series using dimension reduction”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97, 759-765. (SCIE) (IF: 3.989; SCI ranking: 3.2%)

[18] Li, K.C., Lue, H.H, and Chen, C.H., 2000, “Interactive tree-structured regression via principal Hessian directions”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95, 547-560. (SCIE) (IF: 3.989; SCI ranking: 3.2%)

[19] Li, K. C. , 1997, “Nonlinear confounding in high dimensional regression”, Annals of Statistics, 25, 577-612. (SCIE) (IF: 2.65; SCI ranking: 13.7%)

[20] Lee, J. J., Li, K. C. and Elashoff, R. M., 1993, “On re-censoring for censored paired data”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 88, 104-118. (SCIE) (IF: 3.989; SCI ranking: 3.2%)

[21] Hall, P. and Li, K. C.*, 1993, “On almost linearity of low dimensional projection from high dimensional data”, Annals of Statistics, 21, 867-889. (SCIE) (IF: 2.65; SCI ranking: 13.7%)

[22] Carroll, R. J. and Li, K. C.*, 1992, “Measurement error regression with unknown link: dimension reduction and data visualization”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 87, 1040-1050. (SCIE) (IF: 3.989; SCI ranking: 3.2%)

[23] Li, K. C. , 1992, “On principal Hessian directions for data visualization and dimension reduction: another application of Stein's lemma”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 87, 1025-1039. (SCIE) (IF: 3.989; SCI ranking: 3.2%)

[24] Li, K. C. , 1991, “Sliced inverse regression for dimension reduction, with discussions”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 86, 316-342. (SCIE) (IF: 3.989; SCI ranking: 3.2%)

[25] Li, K. C, 1989, “Honest confidence regions for nonparametric regression”, Annals of Statistics, 17, 1001-1008. (SCIE) (IF: 2.65; SCI ranking: 13.7%)

[26] Li, K. C. , 1985, “From Stein's unbiased risk estimates to the method of generalized cross validation”, Annals of Statistics, 13, 1352-1377. (SCIE) (IF: 2.65; SCI ranking: 13.7%)

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