Prof. LIU Xiaofan (劉肖凡)

Dr. LIU’s research interests center around network science, artificial intelligence and their applications in social and economic settings such as social network analysis, diffusion of innovation, online public opinion and cryptocurrencies, etc.

I come from an interdisciplinary background: a Bachelor of Science degree in Internet and multimedia technologies and a Ph.D. degree in network science, both from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before joining CityU, I was an associate professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China.

I am currently affiliated with Prof. Jonathan Zhu's Web Mining Laboratory and Prof. Ron Chen's Centre for Complexity and Complex Networks. I'm also involved in an InnoHK R&D initiative, the Laboratory for AI-Powered Financial Technologies.

My research group studies human behaviors in web3 and the dark web with computational social science methods. Post-doc and data scientist/engineer positions (with an opportunity of pursuing doctoral degree) are available.

• Computational Social Sciences
• Cryptocurrency and Dark Web

• 刘肖凡、李正龙，“群组间消息传播路径挖掘方法与系统”，中国发明，专利号 ZL 2017 1 01154048.7
• 刘肖凡、李正龙，“一种基于在线社交平台群聊数据对群成员进行关联的系统及方法”，中国发明，专利号 ZL 2016 1 0482435.3
• 庆光蔚、王会方、丁树庆、冯月贵、刘肖凡、高逸夫、胡静波、冯文龙、韩郡业、张军、米涌、王建华、梁秉、方铭杰，“一种基于最小加权时间距离的电梯救援站点最优选址方法”，中国发明，专利号 ZL 2017 1 0236990.2 （国家市场监管总局2020年度市场监管科研成果二等奖）
• 蔡成委、韦志群、刘肖凡，“一种基于用户画像动态轨迹模型的广告推荐方法及系统”，中国发明，公开号 CN108665083A，公开日2018年10月16日。

• COM3203 - Digital and Data Journalism for Bachelor students
• COM5507 - Social Media Data Acquisition and Processing for MA students
• COM5508 - Media Data Analytics for MACNM students
• COM8010 - Computational Social Science Methods for research students