Education

  • Peking University, Physics B.S. (1997-2001)
    Major GPA: 3.97
  • Stanford University, Statistics M.S. (2004-2005)
  • Stanford University, Applied Physics Ph.D. (2001-2005)
    Overall GPA: 3.98 (Complete course list available)

Honors

  • International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Meritorious Award, teamed with Di Xiao and Xiliang Luo (2000)
  • Guang Cai 1st Class Scholarship (1997-2001)
  • 4th National Competition of Mechanics, Champion (1996)

Publications

  • Management Fads, Pedagogies, and Other Soft Technologies (with Jonathan Bendor and Bernardo A. Huberman). Forthcoming in Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization
  • Crowdsourcing, Attention and Productivity (with Daniel M. Romero and Bernardo A. Huberman). NetEcon '09 (2009)
  • Feedback Loops of Attention in Peer Production (with Dennis Wilkinson and Bernardo A. Huberman). IEEE SocialCom '09 (2009)
  • Friendlee: A Mobile Application for Your Social Life (with Anupriya Ankolekar, Gabor Szabo, Yarun Luon, Bernardo A. Huberman and Dennis Wilkinson). MobileHCI '09 (2009)
  • Social Networks That Matter: Twitter under the Microscope (with Daniel M. Romero and Bernardo A. Huberman). First Monday, vol. 14, no. 1 (2009)
  • The Economics of Attention: Maximizing User Value in Information-Rich Environments (with Bernardo A. Huberman). Advances in Complex Systems, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 487-496 (2008)
  • How Public Opinion Forms (with Bernardo A. Huberman). WINE '08 (2008)
  • Truth-telling Reservations (with Li Zhang and Bernardo A. Huberman). Algorithmica, vol. 52, no. 1 (2008)
  • Popularity, Novelty and Attention (with Bernardo A. Huberman). ACM E-Commerce '08 (2008)
  • Novelty and Collective Attention (with Bernardo A. Huberman). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 104, no. 45, pp. 17599-17601 (2007)
  • Comparative Advantage and Efficient Advertising in the Attention Economy (with Bernardo A. Huberman). 22nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXII) (2007)
  • Proportional Response Leads to Market Equilibrium (with Li Zhang). STOC '07 (2007)
  • The Survival of the Unfittest (with Ali Ghodsi and Bernardo A. Huberman). 1st IEEE International Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand (2006)
  • Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems (with Bernardo A. Huberman). NetEcon '06 (2006)
  • Ensuring Trust in One Time Exchanges: Solving the QoS Problem (with Bernardo A. Huberman and Li Zhang). Netnomics, 7:27-37 (2005)
  • Truth-telling Reservations (with Li Zhang and Bernardo A. Huberman). WINE '05 (2005)
  • Protein Misfolding and Amyloid Formation for the Peptide GNNQQNY from Yeast Prion Protein Sup35: Simulation by Reaction Path Annealing (with Jan Lipfert, Joel Franklin and Sebastian Doniach). J. Mol. Biol., 349(3), 648-58 (2005)
  • Games and Queues (with Li Zhang and Bernardo A. Huberman). 10th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (2004)
  • The Dynamics of Reputations (with Bernardo A. Huberman). J. Stat. Mech., P04006 (2004)
  • Discovering Communities in Linear Time: a Physics Approach (with Bernardo A. Huberman). Euro. Phys. J. B, 38, 331-338 (2003)
  • Information Flow in Social Groups (with Bernardo A. Huberman, Lada A. Adamic and Joshua R. Tyler). Physica A, Volume 337, Issues 1-2, 327-335 (2003)
  • The Dynamics of Reputations (with Bernardo A. Huberman). No. 18 in Computing in Economics and Finance 2003 from Society for Computational Economics (2003)
  • In-phase Implies Large Likelihood for Independent Codon Model: Distinguishing Coding from Non-coding Sequences (with Wei-Mou Zheng). J. Theo. Biol., 223 199-203 (2003)
  • Which Are More Random: Coding or Noncoding DNA Sequences? (with Wei-Mou Zheng) Commun. Theor. Phys., 37, 637 (2002)
  • Self-Organizing Approach for Finding Borders of DNA Coding Regions (with Wei-Mou Zheng). oai:arXiv.org:physics/0102048 (2001)

Books

  • An Introduction to Helen McCloy, in Chinese. Introductory chapter to the Helen McCloy series, Library of Classic Mysteries, Jilin Publishing Group (2009)
  • Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems (with Bernardo A. Huberman). Managing Complexity: Insights, Concepts, Applications, Dirk Helbing (Ed.), Springer (2008)
  • Preparation Guide to the GRE Physics Subject Test (with Kun Yao, Xinjian Zhou and Juting Zhai), in Chinese. New Oriental Press (2000)
  • Teaching Yourself Windows '95, in Chinese. Chinese Educational Science Press (1997)

Filed Patents

  • A Method for Maximizing User Clickthrough in Dynamic Websites (with Bernardo A. Huberman) (2008)
  • A System for Displaying Personalized Information in Your Mobile Phone (with Scott Golder and Bernardo A. Huberman) (2007)
  • Tokenization Of Input String For Searching Web Browser History (with Bernardo A. Huberman and Joseph Sofaer) (2007)
  • Weighted Browsing History Tree (with Bernardo A. Huberman) (2007)
  • Systematic Approaches to Message Delivery (with Bernardo A. Huberman) (2006)
  • A System and Method for Selecting and Displaying Most Valuable Information (with Bernardo A. Huberman) (2006)
  • An Efficient and Adaptive System for Content Provision (with Bernardo A. Huberman) (2006)
  • Resourced-reservation Pricing Structures Based on Expected Ability To Deliver (with Bernardo A. Huberman and Li Zhang) (2006)
  • A system and Method for Inducing Truth Telling in Reservations of Bursty Resources (with Bernardo A. Huberman and Li Zhang) (2005)
  • A Fast Method for Discovering Communities in Large Networks (with Bernardo A. Huberman) (2004)

Skills

  • Programming: C, C++, Perl, Ruby, Mathematica, R
  • Language: Fluency in Chinese (Mandarin) and English