Biography:Alex Liu

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Alex Liu (formerly Yongchuan Liu) is a Chinese American data scientist.

Early life

Alex Liu was born in Jinggangshan City, China. He started publishing about mathematical social science as a college student. [1] [2]

Education

In 1982, Liu received his B.S. of Mechanical Engineering from the Northwestern Polytechnical University, followed by a M.A. of Sociology from Peking University.

In 1986, Mr. Liu came to the United States to study both statistics and sociology at Stanford University under the sponsorship of Fulbright Program; he earned his doctorate in sociology from the same university in 1993, plus a M.S. of Computational Statistics.

Career

After his graduation from Stanford, Dr. Liu served as a research fellow at the Asia Pacific Research Center and Hoover Institution at Stanford University.[3] He founded a consulting and training company CATE (GEC).

He taught at the University of Southern California from 2001 to 2002, then the University of California at Irvine from 2003 to 2010, while consulted for the United Nations and USAID. [4]

From 2010 to 2012, Alex served as a data scientist for a few companies including Yapstone, ZestAI, Isky and Retention Science.[5] In 2013, he joined IBM, and served as their chief data scientist until late 2019. While working for IBM, he was certified as a thought leader and a distinguished data scientist by IBM and The Open Group. After IBM, Alex served as a founder and a managing director for the RMDS Lab, and an advisor to the Harvard Data Science Review.[6][7]

Other work

Liu was a participant of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and founded the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (IFCSS). [8] [9] Representing the IFCSS, he worked with the Bush administration to protect Chinese students studying in the United States then, for the Executive Order 12711 and the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992. [10] [11] [12] Due to this, Mr. Liu was singled out by the Chinese government and banned from China in 1989. [13] [14]

In 2003, under the sponsorship of the United Nations , Dr. Liu worked alongside the Sri Lanka government and non-profit organizations in Colombo to help the Sri Lanka peace effort. From 2006 to 2008, under the sponsorship of the United States Agency for International Development, he led efforts of establishing the Kazakhstan American Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation in Uralski of Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyzstan American Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation in Osh of Kyrgyzstan. [15]

Publications

  • "Transforming Health Care with Big Data and AI" InfoAge Publishing 2020
  • “Applying Satellite Observations of Tropical Cyclone Internal Structures to Rapid Intensification Forecast with Machine Learning” Geophysical Research Letters 2020
  • "Apache Speak Machine Learning Blueprints" Packt Publishing 2016
  • "Structural equation modeling and latent variable approaches", Wiley 2005
  • “Democracy Satisfaction and Political Participation in Newly Democracies”, 1999 Michigan CISS
  • “The Effect of Copayments and Income on the Utilization of Medical Care by Subscribers to Japan's National Health Insurance System” International Journal of Health Services 1995
  • "Patterns and Results of Third Democratization Wave", University Press of America 1993


References

  1. ↑ "Introduction to Mathematical Social Science". https://mall.cnki.net/magazine/article/GWSH198510023.htm. 
  2. ↑ "Formalization of Dialectical Propositions". http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTotal-ZXYJ198106012.htm. 
  3. ↑ "comparaive studies of US-Japan health policies". https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/cu5h-cnq9-huw6-993f. 
  4. ↑ "Alex Liu, LinkedIn Profille". https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexyliu/. 
  5. ↑ "Alex Liu, Chief Data Scientist". https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/13/06/p3691594/retention-science-hires-dr-alex-liu-as-its-chief-data-scientist-to-help. 
  6. ↑ "Alex Liu, Advisor HDSR". https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/41zla5o6/release/1/. 
  7. ↑ "Alex Liu, on how AI will change our lief". https://irishtechnews.ie/how-ai-will-change-our-lives-in-future-alex-liu/. 
  8. ↑ "Alex Liu in Tiananmen 1989". https://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6187/953/tab-figures-data/. 
  9. ↑ "IFCSS formed 1989". http://www.standoffattiananmen.com/2017/08/days-of-1989-july-30-1989-chinese.html. 
  10. ↑ "Reactions to Bush Executive Order". https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-07-mn-615-story.html. 
  11. ↑ "IFCSS Lobby in Ten Years of US-China Relations". https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL30768.html. 
  12. ↑ "June 4th Green Card". http://hx.cnd.org/2004/09/07/%E7%BE%8E%E5%9B%BD%E7%89%B9%E6%AE%8A%E7%A7%BB%E6%B0%91%E7%BE%A4%E4%BD%93%E2%80%95%E2%80%95%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E7%BB%BF%E5%8D%A1%E5%A4%A7%E5%86%9B/. 
  13. ↑ "Directive on Policy Toward Chinese Students and Scholars in the United States and Canada, March 1990", in Nicholas Eftimiades, Chinese Intelligence Operations, (CreateSpace Independent Publishing 1994 & Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, New Edition 2011): 117-39. 
  14. ↑ "China black list". https://www.chinacommission.gov/pages/roundtables/120902/blacklistFu.php?mode=print. 
  15. ↑ "KACEBI in Osh of Kyrgyzstan". http://researchmethods.org/entre-kg-project-news.jpg. 

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