Dr. Ray Liu is the Sr. Director and Head of Statistical Innovation and Consultation group at Takeda Pharmaceutical Company with responsibility to develop novel statistical methodology, and provide statistical consultation and project support to various functional areas in R&D, including Discovery, CMC, Translational Research, and Outcome Research. Ray is an active contributor in the statistical community. He was the conference chair of Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop for years 2015 and 2016, and has served at the organizing committee and as session chairs for various conferences, including NCB, ICSA and JSM meetings. He is the author of more than 30 statistical and scientific manuscripts and book chapters, and is the member of ASA, PSTC Stats working group, IQ consortium, and NCBLF. He is the editor of the Springer book “Statistical Applications from Clinical Trials and Personalized Medicine to Finance and Business Analytics”. Dr. Ray Liu received his bachelor and master degrees from National Taiwan University and PhD degree from Columbia University. His current research interests are big data, text mining and joint analysis of hi-dimensional data.