Kung-Yee Liang

Kung-Yee Liang
Kung-Yee Liang
梁賡義
Born	September 7, 1951
Alma mater	National Tsing Hua University (BS); University of South Carolina (MS); University of Washington (PhD);
Known for	Generalized estimating equation
	Scientific career
Fields	Biostatistics
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University; National Yang-Ming University; National Health Research Institutes; Feng Chia University;
Thesis	The Asymptotic Equivalence of Conditional and Unconditional Inference Procedures (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Norman Breslow

Kung-Yee Liang (Chinese: 梁賡義; pinyin: Liáng Gēng yí; born September 7, 1951) is a Taiwanese biostatistician known for his work on generalized estimating equations, which he introduced together with Scott Zeger in 1986. He is a distinguished chair professor at Feng Chia University and the chairman of OBI Pharma, Inc.

From 1982 to 2010, Liang was a professor at the department of biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2010, Liang returned to Taiwan, where he was the president of National Yang-Ming University from 2010 to 2017 and the president of the National Health Research Institutes from 2017 to 2022.