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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