Publications

We propose a model to quantify roommate peer effects based on student accommodation distribution and their academic performance.

Understanding how student peers influence learning outcomes is crucial for effective education management in complex social systems. …

The ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has the potential to change almost every line of work. As AI capabilities continue …

Resumes are often the first medium through which job applicants are evaluated, and resume screening could be the starting point for …

Higher education plays an important role in training a skilled workforce and provides a promising path to disrupt the lasting effects …

Loss of new ideas as potentially long-lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on science.

Two surveys of principal investigators conducted between April 2020 and January 2021 reveal that while the COVID-19 pandemic’s initial …

Prior research on work experience diversity yields inconsistent findings regarding its effects on employment outcomes: some conclude …

Collective cooperation is essential to human society, and it exists in many social dilemmas. In the scenario of a collective-risk …

Industrial diversification depends on spillovers from related industries and nearby regions, yet their interaction remains largely …

Recent, high-quality science is being heard, but unevenly.

Recent, high-quality science is being heard, but unevenly.

Improvements in transportation can facilitate the diffusion of productive capabilities.

Both academia and government have shown an increasingly common interest in the relationship between the high-speed railway and …

Public policy must confront emergencies that evolve in real time and in uncertain directions, yet little is known about the nature of …

During the last two decades, two important contributions have reshaped our understanding of international trade. First, countries trade …

The improvements in data acquisition and processing capabilities, as well as artificial intelligence and statistical mechanics, have …

Different from the western education system, Chinese teachers and parents strongly encourage students to have a regular lifestyle. …

Socio-economic systems are an important branch of complex systems, which involves the complex interactions between people’s …

A manifesto on the new interdisciplinary research field Computational Socioeconomics.

Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic status are significant for economic …

The enrichment of data resources and the innovation of analytic methods are gradually facilitating the transformation of socioeconomics …

Novel data has been leveraged to estimate the socioeconomic status in a timely manner, however, direct comparison on the use of social …

Accurate perception of socioeconomic status and timely identification of emergencies are critical to smart social governance, however, …

Orderliness is an important behavioural feature to predict academic performance.

Quantitative understanding of relationships between students' behavioural patterns and academic performances is a significant step …

A variety of rating-based recommendation methods have been extensively studied including the well-known collaborative filtering …

Height premium has been revealed by extensive literature, however, evidence from China based on large-scale data remains still lacking. …

A step towards understanding China’s regional economic development via non-monetary indicators.

China has experienced an outstanding economic expansion during the past decades, however, literature on non-monetary metrics that …

Collective learning in economic development has been revealed by recent empirical studies, however, investigations on how to benefit …

Link prediction aims at revealing missing and unknown information from observed network data, or predicting possible evolutions in near …

In the wake of large-scale retraction scandals, we urge scientific publishers to be more proactive in stamping out fake peer-reviewing …

Reputation is a valuable asset in online social lives and it has drawn increased attention. Due to the existence of noisy ratings and …

Industrial development is the process by which economies learn how to produce new products and services. But how do economies learn? …

Recommender systems benefit us in tackling the problem of information overload by predicting our potential choices among diverse niche …

With the help of information and communication technologies, studies on the overall social networks have been extensively reported …

Enterprises have put more and more emphasis on data analysis so as to obtain effective management advices. Managers and researchers are …

With the advent of the era of big data, both the quantity and quality of economic activity related data have been enormously enriched …

Bootstrap percolation is a general representation of some networked activation process, which has found applications in explaining many …

The ranking problem has attracted much attention in real systems. How to design a robust ranking method is especially significant for …

We employ a bipartite network to describe an online commercial system. Instead of investigating accuracy and diversity in each …

A conspiracy network is embedded in a network of employees of a company, with each edge representing a message sent from one employee …