Ying Liu is currently a professor at the School of Economics and Management and MOE Social Science Laboratory of Digital Economic Forecasts and Policy Simulation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include digital economy, data analysis, Fintech and E-commerce. His work has been published in academic journals such as R&D Management, Annals of Operations Research, Transport Policy, and SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis.

He is a principle investigator on several research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and several professional companies in China. Over the past years, He has been teaching the course such as Business data analysis, Management economics, and Internet finance for UCAS’s full-time postgraduate program. He received the awards such as "Best Scholar of Alibaba Young Scholar Support Program" "CCF-Tencent Rhinoceros Research Fund of the Chinese Computer Society", "Zhu Li Yuehua Excellent Teacher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences", and "Excellent Paper of the Chinese Academy of Management Annual Conference". His research were introduced into the Wind Database, and were reported by MIT Technology Review, Economic Daily and other media.

Contact:  liuy@ucas.ac.cn

No.3 Zhongguancun Nanyitiao, Haidian District Beijing 100190 P. R. China

Research Areas

Digital economy, Business Data analysis, Fintech, E-commerce

Education

September  2006 ~ July 2011,Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,PhD

September  2002 ~June 2006,Jilin University,Bachelor

Experience

   
Work Experience

December 2016 ~ December 2017, Stanford University, visiting scholar

July 2014 ~ now, associate professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

July 2013 ~ July 2014, assistant professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

July 2011 ~ July 2013, postdoctoral faculty, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Teaching Experience

Business data analysis

Internet finance

Internet economy and Internet business model

Management economics

Venture finance

Publications

   
Papers

(1)How "Belt and Road" Initiative Implementation Has Influenced R&D Outcomes of Chinese Enterprises: Asset-exploitation or Knowledge Transfer?, R&D Management, 2021, with S Li,J Su,MD Lepech and J Wang.
(2) Can e-commerce platforms build the resilience of brick-and-mortar businesses to the COVID-19 shock? An empirical analysis in the Chinese retail industry, Electronic Commerce Research, 2022, with S Li,J Su,X Luo and X Yang.

(3)Impact of streamers’ characteristics on sales performance of search and experience products: Evidence from Douyin, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2022, with X Yang, J Dong, and S Li.

(4) Customer churn prediction for web browsers, Expert Systems With Applications, 2022, with X Wu, P Li, M Zhao, R Crespo,E Viedma.

(5)  A novel approach for predicting urban pavement damage based on facility information: A case study of Beijing, China, Transport Policy, 2020-03, with S Li,P Wang,P Liu and J Meng.

(6)A framework of pavement management system based on IoT and big data, Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2021, with J Dong,W Meng and J Ti .

(7) Using Google Trends and Baidu Index to analyze the impacts of disaster events on company stock prices, Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2019-11.with G Peng,L Hu,J Dong and Q Zhang.
(8) Forecasting Chinese Stock Market Prices using Baidu Search Index with a Learning-Based Data Collection Method, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 2019-10. with J Dong,W Dai,L Yu,J Wang and Y Shi
(9) Online purchaser segmentation and promotion strategy selection: evidence from Chinese E-commerce market, Annals of Operations Research, 2015. with H Li, G Peng, B Lv, C Zhang.
(10) Composite leading search index: a preprocessing method of internet search data for stock trends prediction, Annals of Operations Research, 2015. with Y Chen, S Wu, G Peng, B Lv. 
(11) A Preprocessing Method of Internet Search Data for Prediction Improvement: Application to Chinese Stock Market, ACM SIGKDD, Proceedings of the Data Mining and Intelligent Knowledge Management Workshop, 2012. with B Lv, G Peng, Q Yuan.

Research Interests

Management science, Business Data analysis, Digital economy, Fintech, E-commerce

Honors & Distinctions

(1) Nomination Award for Excellent Paper of the 5th "Financial Technology · Innovation and Risk Management Academic Conference", 2022

(2) Zhu Li Yuehua Excellent Teacher Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2021

(3) University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, excellent undergraduate course in 2020, 2020

(4) Excellent Communist Party member of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019-2020 academic year, 2020

(5) CCF (China Computer Society) - Tencent Rhinoceros Research Fund, 2015

(6) Special Award for Teaching of Young Teachers in School of Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014

(7) Third Prize of "Citi Cup" Financial and Information Technology Application Competition, 2011

(8) Excellent Scholar Award of Alibaba Young Scholar Support Program, 2011

(9) Excellent Paper Award of the 4th Annual Conference of Chinese Management, 2009

Funded Research Projects

(1) Principle Investigator, General program of National Natural Science Foundation of China: research on algorithmic governance based on welfare effect evaluation, 2023-01-2026-12 

(2) Principle Investigator,  General program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on the evolution characteristics and reasoning methods of multi-agent behavior in the stock market considering adaptive behavior, 2019-01-2022-12 

(3) Principle Investigator, Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on the Influence of Emotional Factors on Internet Search Prediction: Taking the Tourism Market as an Example, 2013-01-2015-12 

(4) Principle Investigator, CCF-Tencent commissioned project: research on user flow model and loss risk early warning based on big data, 2015-10-2017-08 

(5) Principle Investigator, Research on new public security infrastructure construction planning, April 2020-20200-12 

(6) Principle Investigator, Beijing Self-Science Fund: Research on Beijing Tourism Traffic Forecast Based on Internet Behavior, 2014-01-2015-12 

(7) Principle Investigator, Research on new public security infrastructure construction planning, April 2020-20200-12 

(8) Principle Investigator, Construction and application of the operating prosperity of Yiwu small commodity market, 2018-11-2019-04

(9) Principle Investigator, Urban infrastructure road maintenance data analysis, principal, enterprise commission, 2018-10-2019-04 

(10)Principle Investigator,  Multi-dimensional data-driven enterprise risk identification and early warning, 2017-01-2019-12