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
- Popularity, Novelty and Attention (with Bernardo A.
Huberman). ACM E-Commerce '08 (2008)
- The Economics of Attention: Maximizing User Value in
Information-Rich Environments (with Bernardo A.
Huberman). Forthcoming in Advances in Complex
Systems (2008)
- Novelty and Collective Attention (with Bernardo A.
Huberman). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 104,
no. 45, pp. 17599-17601 (2007)
- Truth-telling Reservations (with Li Zhang and
Bernardo A. Huberman). Algorithmica,
DOI: 10.1007/s00453-007-9107-5 (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). NetEcon06
(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). The 1st Workshop on Internet
and Network Economics, Hong Kong, China (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)
Work in Progress
- Optimal Bidding Strategy in Keyword Auctions and
Other Continuous-time Markets.
- Truth-telling Options (with Li Zhang and Bernardo A.
Huberman).
- Management Fads, Pedagogies and Soft Technologies
(with Jonathan Bendor and Bernardo A. Huberman).
- Social Structure and Opinion Formation (with Bernardo
A. Huberman).
Books
- Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems
(with Bernardo A. Huberman). Managing Complexity:
Insights, Concepts, Applications, Dirk Helbing (Ed.),
Springer (2008).
- Fang Wu, Kun Yao, Xinjian Zhou and Juting Zhai, A
Preparation Guide to the GRE Physics Subject Test,
New Oriental (in Chinese) (2000)
- Fang Wu, Teaching Yourself Windows '95,
Chinese Educational Science Press (in Chinese)
(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