Graduate research assistant


Honors

Margaret C. Etter Student lecturer Award of the American Crystallographic Association

2019


Education & Employment


Neo Ivy Capital Management

Quantitative Researcher

New York, NY, 2020 - present

Columbia University

Graduate Research Assistant

New York, NY, 2014 - 2020

Columbia University

masters research assistant in Applied Physics

New York, NY, 2014 - 2020
  • Advisor: Simon Billinge

Publications

  1. Ling Lan, Chia-Hao Liu, Qiang Du, and Simon J. L. Billinge. "Robustness test of the spacegroupMining model for determining space groups from atomic pair distribution function data". Journal of Applied Crystallography . 55 p. 626-630 Jun 2022 download doi
  2. Zachary Thatcher, Chia-Hao Liu, Long Yang, Brennan C. McBride, Gia Thinh Tran, Allison Wustrow, Martin A. Karlsen, James R. Neilson, Dorthe B. Ravnsbæk, and Simon J. L. Billinge. "{nmfMapping}: a cloud-based web application for non-negative matrix factorization of powder diffraction and pair distribution function datasets". Acta Crystallographica Section A . 73 p. 242-248 May 2022 download doi
  3. Allison Wustrow, Matthew J. McDermott, Daniel O'Nolan, Chia-Hao Liu, Gia Thinh Tran, Brennan C. McBride, Simon Vornholt, Chao Feng, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Karena W. Chapman, Simon J. L. Billinge, Wenhao Sun, Kristin A. Persson, and James R. Neilson. "Reaction Selectivity in Cometathesis: Yttrium Manganese Oxides". Chemistry of Materials . 34 p. 4694–4702 May 2022 download doi
  4. Allison Wustrow, Guanglong Huang, Matthew J. McDermott, Daniel O'Nolan, Chia-Hao Liu, Gia Thinh Tran, Brennan C. McBride, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Karena W. Chapman, Simon J. L. Billinge, Kristin A. Persson, Katsuyo Thornton, and James R. Neilson. "Lowering Ternary Oxide Synthesis Temperatures by Solid State Cometathesis Reactions". J. Amer. Chem. Soc. . 33 p. 3692–3701 Tbd 2021 download doi
  5. Chia-Hao Liu, Christopher J. Wright, Ran Gu, Sasaank Bandi, Allison Wustrow, Paul K. Todd, Daniel O'Nolan, Michelle L. Beauvais, James R. Neilson, Peter J. Chupas, Karena W. Chapman, and Simon J. L. Billinge. "Validation of non-negative matrix factorization for rapid assessment of large sets of atomic pair-distribution function (PDF) data". J. Appl. Crystallogr. . 54 p. 768-775 May 2021 download doi
  6. Liu, Chia-Hao, Janke, Eric M., Ruipen, Li, Juh\'{a}s, Pavol, Gang, Oleg, Talapin, Dimitri V., and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "sasPDF: pair distribution function analysis of nanoparticle assemblies from small-angle-scattering data". J. Appl. Cryst. . 53 p. 699-709 Nov 2020 download doi
  7. Paul K. Todd, Allison Wustrow, Rebecca D. McAuliffe, Matthew J. McDermott, Gia Thinh Tran, Brennan C. McBride, Ethan D. Boeding, Daniel O'Nolan, Chia-Hao Liu, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Karena W. Chapman, Simon J. L. Billinge, Kristin A. Persson, Ashfia Huq, Gabriel M. Veith, and James R. Neilson. "Defect-accommodating intermediates yield selective low-temperature synthesis of {YMnO$_3$} polymorphs". Inorg. Chem. . 59 p. 13639–13650 Aug 2020 download doi
  8. Daniel O'Nolan, Guanglong Huang, Gabrielle E. Kamm, Antonin Grenier, Chia-Hao Liu, Paul Todd, Allison Wustrow, Gia Thinh Tran, David Montiel, James R. Neilson, Simon J. L. Billinge, Peter J. Chupas, Katsuyo S. Thornton, and Karena W. Chapman. "A thermal-gradient approach to variable-temperature measurements resolved in space". J. Appl. Crystallogr. . 81 p. 39-55 May 2020 download doi
  9. Banerjee, Soham, Liu, Chia-Hao, Jensen, Kirsten M. O., Juh\'{a}s, Pavol, Lee, Jennifer D., Ackerson, Christopher J., Murray, Christopher B., and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Cluster-mining: An approach for determining core structures of metallic nanoparticles from atomic pair distribution function data". Acta Crystallogr. A . 76 p. 24-31 Jan 2020 download doi
  10. Chia-Hao Liu. "Development of small-angle scattering pair distribution function analysis techniques and application to polymer-grafted nanoparticles (GNPs)". . Jan 2020
  11. Liu, Chia-Hao, Tao, Yunzhe, Hsu, Daniel J., Du, Qiang, and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Using a machine learning approach to determine the space group of a structure from the atomic pair distribution function". Acta Crystallogr. A . 75 p. 633-643 June 2019 download doi
  12. Banerjee, Soham, Liu, Chia-Hao, Lee, Jennifer D., Kovyakh, Anton, Grasmik, Viktoria, Prymak, Oleg, Koenigsmann, Christopher, Liu, Haiqing, Wang, Lei, Abeykoon, A. M. Milinda, Wong, Stanislaus S., Epple, Matthias, Murray, Christopher B., and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Improved models for metallic nanoparticle cores from atomic pair distribution function ({PDF}) analysis". J. Phys. Chem. C . 122 p. 29498-29506 Nov 2018 download doi

Skills


Programming Languages

  • Proficient: Python