Dr. Alex Liu is a chief scientist and a director of the RMA.

　

Dr. Liu is a well-known expert in the field of customer scoring, program evaluation, measurement and educational assessment. In the RMA Alex has provided analytics consultation and training to many well known organizations including IBM, the United Nations, Indymac Bank, AOL, Ingram Micro, GEM, Farmers Insurance, Scripps Networks and USAID. 

Alex has a Ph.D. of Quantitative Sociology and a M.S. of Statistical Computing from Stanford University. In the past, he worked for the Asia/Pacific Research Center and Hoover Institution at Stanford University as a research fellow, for the IBM Research as a senior consulting scientist, and for the University of California at San Diego as a senior consultant. Dr. Liu also taught advanced research methods and analytics to Ph.D. candidates in the University of Southern California and the University of California at Irvine.

Dr. Liu received numerous awards including Fulbright Fellowship, Nakamura Postdoctoral Fellowship, United States Students Association Outstanding Award, Media Alliance Non-profit Campaign Award, and AIU Online Faculty Award. 

Alex is a Christian and lives in Los Angeles.