Ran Xu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. Before joining Virginia Tech, he received his PhD in Measurement and Quantitative Methods from Michigan State University. His research interests include (1) Network Analysis. That includes the development of new network analysis methods, and application of network analysis methods to the study of social science topics. (2) Network Thinking. That includes the study of how factors in a system are interrelated and why efforts to change the system often generate unintended consequences. Currently, he is working on a science policy project in which he analyzes research trends of doctoral recipients and the process of scientific knowledge production. [CV] Contact: ranxu@vt.edu
Projects
Data Science
Service Science
Publications
Ghaffarzadegan, N., Xu, R., Larson, R.C., Hawley, J. 2018. Symptoms versus Root Causes: A Needed Structural Shift in Academia to Help Early Careers. BioScience. In press.
Xu, R., Ghaffarzadegan, N. 2018. Neuroscience bridging scientific disciplines in health: who builds the bridge, who pays for it? Scientometrics. In press.
Ghaffarzadegan, N., Rad, A. A., Xu, R., Middlebrooks, S. E., Mostafavi, S., Shepherd, M., Chambers, L. & Boyum, T. (2018). Dell's SupportAssist customer adoption model: enhancing the next generation of data‐intensive support services. System Dynamics Review.
Xu, R., Frank, K. A. 2016. The Implications for Network Structure of Dynamic Feedback between Influence and Selection. Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. Springer International Publishing.
Moore, J. A., Xu, R., Frank, K. A., Draheim, H., & Scribner, K. T. 2015. Social network analysis of mating patterns in American black bears (Ursus americanus). Molecular Ecology, 24(15), 4010-4022.