I am Liang Xu, currently a Postdoctoral Researcher collaborating with Prof. Emily Zakem at Carnegie Science. My expertise spans theoretical modeling, bioinformatics, and machine learning, with a keen interest in exploring diverse topics such as species interactions on macro eco-evolutionary scales, species coexistence theory, oceanic modeling, and trait-based modeling. I am particularly intrigued by the application of machine learning techniques in ecology and evolution. For further details, please refer to my CV HERE, with a Chinese version available HERE.
Education
2015 - 2020 University of Groningen. PhD in Eco-evolution;
Dissertation thesis: Modelling species interactions in macroevolution and macroecology.
2008 - 2010 Hong Kong University. Master of Philosophy in Mathematics; Epidemic models of virus infection
2004 - 2008 Beijing Normal University. Bachelor in Mathematics
Work Experience
2022 - now Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University, USA
2021 - 2022 Department of Plant Sciences (Dept. of Biology), Oxford University, UK
2010 - 2015 Chongqing University of Technology & Sciences. Lecturer in Department of Mathematics and Physics.
Publication
Emily J Zakem, Jesse McNichol, J. L. Weissman, Yubin Raut, Liang Xu, Elisa R. Halewood, Craig A. Carlson, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Jed A. Fuhrman, Naomi M. Levine. Predictable functional biogeography of marine microbial heterotrophs. bioRxiv 2024.02.14.580411; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.14.580411
Xu, L., A. Clark, M. Rees and L. Turnbull (2023). Estimating competition in metacommunities: accounting for biases caused by dispersal. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 291–301. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14022
Xu, L., S. van Doorn, H. Hildenbrandt and R. S. Etienne (2021). Inferring the Effect of Species Interactions on Trait Evolution, Systematic Biology, Volume 70, Issue 3, May 2021, Pages 463–479, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa072
Xu, L., & Etienne, R. S. (2018). Detecting local diversity-dependence in diversification. Evolution, 72(6), 1294-1305. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13482
Xu, L., H. Hildenbrandt and R. S. Etienne. The phylogenetic Janzen-Connell effect can explain multiple macroecological and macroevolutionary patterns. Authorea. February 12, 2020. DOI: 10.22541/au.158152203.38129615
Xu, L.. A Functional Analytic Approach to the Power Series Solutions of an Nonlinear Differential Equations, Asia-Pacific
Power and Energy Engineering Conference, 2012, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/APPEEC.2012.63 07563.