Speaker - Dr. Tim Liao / University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tim Liao is Professor of Sociology & Statistics and LAS Alumni Distinguished Professorial Scholar. He is President of the Sequence Analysis Association and incoming Editor of Socius. He received the American Sociological Association Methodology's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award in 2021. He was a 2017-2018 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow. He has recently been an Associate Editor of Advances in Life Course Research (2021-2024) and a Deputy Editor of Demography (2016-2024) and served on the editorial board of the American Sociological Review (2021-2023) and The Sociological Quarterly (2020-2023). He is a former Deputy Editor of The Sociological Quarterly, (1992-2000), former Editor of Sage’s Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series (2004-2009), and former Editor of Sociological Methodology (2009-2015). He served on the council of the ASA Methodology Section (1998-2001) and the council of the North America Chinese Sociological Association (2000-2002). He also served on the editorial board of Sociological Methods & Research and on the editorial board of Sociological Methodology. He served as the Chair of the Methodology Section of the American Sociology Association from 2009 to 2011.