Dr. Haixia Liu got her Ph. D degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Raymond H. Chan. Before joining HUST, she was working as a postdoc at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, mentored by Prof.  Yang Wang. Her research interests mainly focus on designing algorithms to solve problems in data sciences (data analysis, machine learning, stylometry (style analysis)) using numerical linear algebra, optimization (convex or nonconvex), probability and statistics.