Dr. Owen Ou Liu got his PhD degree from City University of Hong Kong in 2006. He is currently an Associate Professor in Intelligent Marketing at Business School. Before this, he was a full time adademic staff at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Aston University. His research interests include business intelligence and analytics, social networks, and data science. He has published over 100 fully refereed papers via renowned & prestigious publication venues, such as Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, various IEEE Transactions, among others. According to Google Scholar, his total citation is 3000+ and H-index is 18.

Dr. Liu is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA, UK) and Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE, US). He serves as the guest editor of several special issues and ad-hoc reviewer for over 30 SCI/SSCI academic journals and international conferences. He also has industrial experience in developing R&D project management systems and a scholars’ social network which involves big data analytics of social media.