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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

  • Research Fellow, Center for Science of Science and Innovation, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, and Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

  • In-record Instructor, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University

  • Associate Instructor, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University

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 System, 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) by Stanford University and Elsevier [LINK]; 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).

 

  • 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 Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation in China, for 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 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, April 2021 – March 2022.

Service
  • Associate Editor-in-chief:
         - Editing Practice

     

  • Boards of Directors (BoD) member:
         - 
    International Network for Science of Team Science (INSciTS) (October 2022-October 2024).
     

  • Special interest group (SIG) leadership:

            - Science and Technical Information SIG in the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) secretary/treasurer (November 2019-November 2020), chair-elect (November 2020-November 2021), and chair (November 2021-November 2022).

            - Co-chair: Scientometrics and Data Analytics for Team Science SIG in the International Network for Science of Team Science (INSciTS) (May 2019 till now).

  • Editorial board member:

             - Annual Review for Information Science and Technology (2022-);
             - Journal of Information Science (2021-); and
             - Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2022-);

             - Scientometrics (2024-).

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

  • Journal reviewer:

             - ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (2020-);

             - Aslib Journal of Information Management (2021-);

             - BMJ Open (2018-);

             - Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery (Chinese name: 数据分析与知识发现, 2022-);

             - Data and Information Management (2018-);

             - Data Intelligence (2019-);
             - Document, Information, and Knowledge (Chinese name: 图书情报知识, 2021-);

             - Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (2020-);

             - Health Data Science (2022-);

             - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2022-);

             - Information Studies: Theories and Practices (Chinese name: 情报理论与实践, 2022-)

             - Information Systems Journal (2020-);
             - Journal of Data and Information Science (2017-) ;

             - Journal of Information Science (2018-);
             - Journal of Information Science in China (Chinese name: 情报科学, 2021-);

             - Journal of Informetrics (2018-);

             - Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (2018-);

             - Journal of Medical Internet Research (2021-);

             - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2017-) ;

             - Library Hi Tech (2019-);

             - Library Tribune (Chinese name: 图书馆论坛, 2022-);
             - Nature Ecology and Evolution (2022-);

             - Online Information Review (2020-);

             - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (2019-);

             - PLoS One (2018-);
             - Quantitative Science Studies (2021-);

             - Research Policy (2024-);
             - Science Bulletin (2021-);
             - Science Focus (Chinese name: 科学观察, 2022-);
             - Scientific Reports (2021-);

             - Scientometrics (2019-);

             - Social Network Analysis and Mining (2016-);
             - Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2021-); and
             - The Electronic Library (2022-).

 

  • Conferences PC members/reviewers:
          - ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (2017, 2020);
          - ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (2019-);
          - Annual Meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) (2020-);
          - Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) (2018-);
          - Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (2021, joint with IJNLP);
          - China Doctoral Forum in Information Science (2021);
          - China Doctoral Forum in Library Science (2021);
          - China Information Science Conference (2022);
          - China “39 Youth Scholar Forum” in Library, Information, and Archive Management (2021);
          - International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) (2023);

          - International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) (2021, joint with ACL);
          - National Conference on Social Media Processing (2017);
          - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) (2020); and
          - The Web Conference (WWW) (2019-).

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

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

    • 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.

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