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EDUCATION AND AWARDS

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Information Management (with a joint appointment at the National Engineering Lab of Big Data Analysis and Application Technology), Peking University (July 2020 till now)

  • Research Fellow, Center for Science of Science and Innovation, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, and Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (February 2019 to June 2020)

  • In-record Instructor, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University (August 2019 to May 2020)

  • Associate Instructor, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University (January 2017 to July 2019)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Informatics (Complex Networks and Systems track), Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, U.S.A.

  • Master of Science in Data Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, U.S.A.

  • Bachelor of Management in Information Management and Systems, Department of Information Management, Peking University, China.

Awards

  • Awards/Scholarships/Fellowships: China National scholarship (2013, PKU); Robin Li scholarship (2014, PKU); Leo Koguan scholarship (2015, PKU); Data Science Master fellowship (2017-2018, IU); Travel Award Sponsored by Publications journal (2018) [NEWS HERE], Ph.D. student travel award (2018, IU); IU Graduate Informatics Student Association Spring 2019 Travel Award (2019, IU-GISA); Collaborative Archive and Data Research Environment (CADRE) Fellowship (2019, CADRE); Award for Administrative Tasks (2021-2023, PKU); Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program (2021, China Association for Science and Technology); Top peer reviewers for the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2020) [LINK] and (2021) [LINK]; World’s Top 2% Scientists (2022, 2023) by Stanford University and Elsevier; Outstanding class instructor at Peking University (Academic year 2022-2023); Outstanding Instructor Award in the National Student Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Creativity Competition for Publishing Majors (2023); Outstanding Instructor Award in the 8th China Data News Competition (2023); Outstanding reviewers for the Journal of Data and Information Science (2023) [LINK]; 2nd Prize, Outstanding Lesson Plan Award, and the Best Teaching Presentation Award in the 23rd Young Professors’ Basic Teaching Skills Competition, Peking University (2023), Mentor for “Excellent Scientific Research Project” for Undergraduates, Peking University (2023), Excellent paper from the Annal Meeting of Information Science in China (2024), Excellent paper from the 16th China Youth Innovation Forum (2024), Outstanding reviewers for Library and Information Service and Knowledge Management Forum (2024), Outstanding reviewer for Document, Information, and Knowledge (2024).
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  • Memberships: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, 2020-), Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T, 2018-), Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE, 2019-), China Committee of Information Studies and Consultation (Chinese name: 中国科学技术情报学会-情报研究与信息咨询专业委员会, 2021-), China Committee of Library Statistics and Evaluation (Chinese name: 中国图书馆学会-图书馆统计与评价专业组, 2022-), China Committee of Scientometrics and Informetrics (Chinese name: 中国科学学与科技政策研究会-科学计量学与信息计量学专业委员会, 2021-), iSchools Asia-Pacific Next Generation Committee (2022-), International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI, 2017-), Society for Social Studies of Science (4S, 2018-)​

  

  • Others: Excellent Student Assistant (2013, PKU), Microsoft Office Specialist (2014), Campus Merit Student (2014 and 2015, PKU), Beijing Merit Student (2015), Outstanding graduates (2016, PKU), Wusi Medal Candidate (2016, PKU)

Projects

  • PI, the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation in China for the project “Identification of original scientific and technological achievements based on hypergraph representation learning: A perspective of knowledge units”, January 2025 – December 2028.

  • PI, the Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation in China, for the project “Early recognition of interdisciplinary teams with high scientific impact based on causal inference”, January 2022 – December 2024.

  • PI, the Youth Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of China, for the project “Knowledge diffusion and integration of scientific publications: A complex network perspective”, August 2021 – July 2023.

  • PI, project collaborating with the ISTIC-Taylor & Francis Group, March 2021 – June 2021.

  • PI, project collaborating with OPPO, June 2022 – October 2022.

  • PI, Peking University early-career support project, May 2021 – December 2023.

  • PI, Peking University undergraduate course improvement project for Complex Networks, April 2023 – March 2024.

  • PI, Peking University undergraduate course improvement project for Data Analytics with Python, April 2021 – March 2022.

Service

  • Associate Editor-in-chief:
         - Editing Practice (2023-2025).

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  • Editorial board member:

             - Annual Review for Information Science and Technology (2022-);
             - Journal of Information Science (2021-); and

             - Scientometrics (2024-).

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  • Advisory board member:
          - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2022-).
     

  • Journal reviewer:

             - ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare;
             - ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data;

             - Aslib Journal of Information Management;

             - BMJ Open

             - Data and Information Management;

             - Data Intelligence;
             - FACET;
             - Government Information Quarterly;

             - Health Data Science;

             - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications;

             - Information Systems Journal;
             - Journal of Data and Information Science;

             - Journal of Information Science;

             - Journal of Informetrics;

             - Journal of Librarianship and Information Science;

             - Journal of Medical Internet Research;

             - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology;
             - Learned Publishing;

             - Library Hi Tech;
             - Nature;
             - Nature Computational Science;
             - Nature Ecology and Evolution;
             - Neurocomputing;

             - Online Information Review;

             - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications;
             - Physical Review E;

             - PLoS One;
             - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS);
             - Quantitative Science Studies;

             - Research Policy;
             - Science Bulletin;
             - Scientific Reports;

             - Scientometrics;

             - Social Network Analysis and Mining;
             - Technological Forecasting and Social Change;
             - The Electronic Library; and
             - The Innovation.

 

  • Conferences PC members/reviewers:
          - ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD);
          - ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL);
          - Annual Meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE);
          - Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T);
          - Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL);
          - Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP);
          - iConference;
          - International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications;
          - International Conference on Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators (STI);
          - International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI);
          - National Conference on Social Media Processing;
          - North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL);
          - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS); and
          - The Web Conference (WWW).

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  • Bibliographic database advisory board member:
          - Scilit (2021-).

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  • Conference workshop/panel/session (co-)organizers/moderators:

    • Causal Inference in Science of Science panel, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2024) co-organizer with Meijun Liu, and Ying Ding, December 16, 2024, Hong Kong, China.

    • Innovation Measurement for Scientific Communication (IMSC) in the Era of Big Data, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2024) co-organizer with Zhongyi Wang, Haihua Chen, Chengzhi Zhang, Wei Lu, and Jian Wu, December 16, 2024, Hong Kong, China.

    • METSTI (2023) Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric, and Scientific and Technical Information Research (SIGMETRICS-SIGSTI co-sponsored workshop). ASIS&T Workshop co-organizer with Isabelle Dorsch, Meijun Liu, Kai Li, Chenwei Zhang, and Pei-Ying Chen, October 27, 2023, London, U.K.

    • International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2023) Workshop: Causal Inference in Scientometrics. Workshop co-chair with Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Ying Ding, Xianlei Dong, and Meijun Liu. July 2, 2023, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

    • International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference (2023) Workshop: International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Representation, Discovery, and Assessment. Workshop co-chair with Ying Ding, Ágnes Horvát, Yong Huang, Meijun Liu, Paolo Manghi, Andrea Mannocci, Francesco Osborne, Daniel Romero, Dimitris Sacharidis, Angelo Salatino, Misha Teplitskiy, Thanasis Vergoulis, Feng Xia, Yujia Zhai. April 30, 2023, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

    • Information Processing and Management Conference (IP&MC) (2022) Workshop: Causal inference in Information Science. Workshop co-chair with Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Ying Ding, Xianlei Dong, and Meijun Liu. October 20, 2022, online.

    • Science and Technology Policy Workshop. ASIS&T Workshop co-organizer with Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Steve Hardin, Meijun Liu, and Yuehua Zhao, October 8, 2022, online.

    • International Conference on Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators (STI) (2022) Special track: (Inter)national researcher mobility: determinants and consequences. Special track co-organizer with Claudia Acciai, Benjamin C. Holding, Mathias Wullum Nielsen, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodriguez, and Vincent Larivière. September 7, 2022, Granada, Spain (hybrid).

    • Knowledge and Data Discovery (KDD) Conference (2022) Workshop: Data-Driven Science of Science. Workshop co-chair with Meijun Liu, Yujia Zhai, Ying Ding, Feng Xia, Daniel Acuña, and Yi Zhang. August 15, 2022, Washington D.C., U.S.A. (hybrid).

    • Webinar at ASIS&T. Proposer and moderator. June 9, 2022, online.

    • Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (2021) Panel session: Building ties across countries--Scientific collaboration and mobility in global scientific relationships. Session co-chair with Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez and Rodrigo Costas. October 7, 2021, online.

    • Annual Meeting of Information Science in China (2021). Session organizer. September 29, 2021, online.

    • China “39” Youth Scholar Forum in Library, Information, and Archive Management (2021). Session organizer. September 26, 2021, Beijing, China.

    • Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics of China Presentation session: Science and education evaluation. Session organizer. June 19, 2021, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

    • Knowledge Graph Technology and Applications (KGTA) workshop in WWW 2019 conference. Workshop co-organizer with Ying Ding. May 13, 2019, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

    • International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) 2017 Presentation session: Mathematical Methods (II). Session co-organizer with Ke Dong. October 19, 2017, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

    • iConference 2017 Special Panel: Data-Driven Science of Science. Special Panel chair. March 23, 2017, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Last Updated: March 2025

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