Current Professional Societies

1. Youth Working Committee Member, Systems Engineering Society of China;

2. Artificial Society Professional Committee Member, China Simulation Association;

3. Social Strategy Professional Committee Member, Chinese Association of Development Strategy Studies.

Research Areas

1. Network social governance;

2. Big data analysis;

3. Computational communication;

4. Opinion dynamics.

Funds

1. General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 72274010.

2. Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 71904010.

3. Beijing Social Science Foundation Project, 20JCC021.

4. 2022 Youth Talent of Science and Technology Think Tank, China Association for Science and Technology, 20220615ZZ07110100.

5. China Postdoctoral Science Fund, 2018M641177.

Publications

1. Lian, Y., Dong, X*. 2022. An opinion dynamics model for unrelated discrete opinions.Knowledge-Based Systems251, 109133.

2. Dong X., Lian, Y*. 2022. The moderating effects of entertainers on public engagement through government activities in social media during the COVID-19. Telematics and Informatics66, 101746.

3. Dong X., Lian, Y*. 2021. A review of social media-based public opinion analyses: Challenges and recommendations. Technology in Society67, 101724.

4. Dong, X., Lian, Y., Chi, Y., Tang, X., & Liu, Y*.  2021. A Two-Step Rumor Detection Model Based on the Supernetwork Theory about Weibo. The Journal of Supercomputing77, 12050–12074.

5. Dong X., Tang, D., Tang, C*. 2021. Social network analysis in China’s hospital healthcare. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications565, 125546.

6. Lian, Y., Dong, X*. 2021. Exploring social media usage in improving public perception on workplace violence against healthcare workers. Technology in Society65, 101559.

7. Lian, Y., Liu, Y.,Dong, X*. 2020. Strategies for controlling false online information during natural disasters: The case of Typhoon Mangkhut in China. Technology in Society62, 101265.

8. Dong, X., Lian, Y., Liu, Y.*, Tang X. 2020. The Damped Oscillator Model (DOM) and Its Application in the Prediction of Emotion Development of Internet public opinions. Expert systems with applications148, 113268.

9. Dong X., Liu Y., Wu C., Lian Y*. 2019. The topology of scale-free networks with an S-shaped nonlinear growth characteristic. Chaos Solitons & Fractals121, 137-148.

10. Dong X., Tang C., Lian Y., Tang D*. 2019. What Entrepreneurial Followers at the Start-Up Stage Need from Entrepreneurship Cultivation: Evidence from Western China. Frontiers in Psychology10, 1309.

11. Dong X., Liu Y., Wu C., Lian Y., Tang D*. 2019. A double-identity rumor spreading model. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications528, 121479.

12. Dong X., Lian Y, Liu Y*. 2018. Small and Multi-Peak Nonlinear Time Series Forecasting Using a Hybrid Back Propagation Neural Network. Information Sciences424, 39-54.

13. Dong, X., Lian, Y., Li, D., & Liu, Y*. 2018. The application of Cobb-Douglas function in forecasting the duration of internet public opinions caused by the failure of public policies. Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering27(5), 632–655.

14. Tang, C.,Dong, X., Lian, Y., Tang, D. 2020. Do Chinese Hospital Services constitute an Oligopoly? Evidence of the Rich-Club Phenomenon in a Patient Referral Network, Future Generation Computer Systems,105, 492-501.

15. Lian, Y., Dong, X., Chi, Y., Tang, X., & Liu, Y. 2019. An Internet Water Army Detection Supernetwork Model. IEEE Access, 7, 55108-55120.

16. Lian Y, Dong X, Liu Y*. Topological evolution of the internet public opinion. 2017. Physica A Statistical Mechanics & Its Applications486.

17. Tang, D., Bu, T.,Dong, X. 2020. Are parental dietary patterns associated with children’s overweight and obesity in China? BMC Pediatrics, 20: 12.

18. Chi, Y., Tang, X., Lian, Y.,Dong, X., Liu, Y*. 2019. A supernetwork-based online post informative quality evaluation model. Knowledge-based systems168, 10-24.

Personal Statement

Dr. Xuefan Dong is presently working as an Associate Professor in the College of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology. He is a master's supervisor of Management Science and Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research and teaching activities deal with network social governance, big data analysis, opinion dynamics, and social network analysis. He has more than 30 peer-review publications, including some research articles in Information Sciences, Expert Systems with Applications, Chaos Solitons & Fractals，Telematics and Informatics，Knowledge-based Systems, Future Generation Computer Systems, Technology in Society, and so on. He is currently a reviewer for Information Sciences, Expert System with Applications, and Physica A. He has undertaken a series of national and province-and ministry-level projects, such as National Natural Science Foundations and Beijing Social Sciences Foundation.