
Qijia Liao 廖琦佳
PhD Researcher in Marketing
University of Liverpool Management School
Interests
Quantitative Marketing · NLP · Machine Learning · Brand Analytics
Links
{{< fa brands google-scholar >}} Google Scholar
{{< fa brands github >}} GitHub
About
I am a PhD student in Marketing at the University of Liverpool Management School, where I work on quantitative and computational approaches to marketing problems.
My research sits at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and consumer behaviour — applying modern data science methods to understand how brands, consumers, and markets interact.
Research Interests
- Computational Marketing — text-as-data approaches to brand and consumer research
- Machine Learning for Marketing — predictive models, customer analytics, churn prediction
- Causal Inference — identifying marketing effects beyond correlation
- NLP — sentiment analysis, topic modelling, embedding-based representations
News
- May 2026 — Teaching Analytics system deployed for student feedback collection
- 2026 Spring — Teaching Quantitative Marketing Analytics at UoL Management School
- Ongoing — Working on brand activism and influencer ML research projects