My name is Qiuran (Rita) Lyu. I am a second-year UC Berkeley Biostatistics Division MA/PhD track student. I am extremely fortunate to be advised by Dr. Jingshen Wang. Before coming to Berkeley, I completed my undergraduate major in Statistics and minor in Fintech from Renmin University of China Statistics Department and Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence. In 2022, I was fortunate to be a visiting student at JSB lab in UCLA and advised by Dr. Jingyi Jessica Li and Dr. Xinzou Shawn Ge and a visiting student at Dr. Jun S. Liu's lab at Harvard University. From then on, I developed a great interest in the junction of Statistics and Artificial Intelligence for Biology & Healthcare tasks.

My research focuses on developing multimodal large language models tailored for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, employing AI-assisted experimental designs to optimize healthcare interventions, and creating digital twins to simulate patient-specific disease trajectories. Additionally, I am developing rigorous statistical methods to validate and interpret LLM outputs, ensuring trustworthy and interpretable AI-driven results in health science.

You can see and download my Curriculum Vitae through Qiuran's CV (updated on Apr, 2025).