Dr.
Alex Liu is one of the world's top experts for data driven research methodologies. He is known for his work
on big data analytics and machine learning
as applied to business and social research,
and
currently
serves as the president of the
Global Association for Research
Methods and Data Science as
well as a director of the
RMDS Lab. Dr. Liu is a thought leader on data science
as certified by
IBM and a distinguished data
scientist as certified by
the Open Group. He
is a pioneer and lead developer of
data
science ecosystem approaches as well as
the RM4Es
with AI.
Before serving as a director for RMDS Lab
since December 2019, Dr.
Liu served as a Chief Data Scientist for a
few corporations including IBM, RS and TRG. Before that, Dr. Liu taught advanced
research methods to Ph.D. candidates in the
University of Southern California and the
University of California at Irvine, while
consulted for many well known organizations
including the United Nations, Ingram
Micro, and Sears.
Dr. Liu is one of very few known experts who
has applied data science to a wide range of
fields from marketing effectiveness, risk
scoring, natural disaster prediction, to
aging, health care, democracy, spiritual
capital and philosophy. Alex's special data
science approach centers on bringing up
positive social impacts with technologies,
for which he received many awards include
Outstanding Service Award from the
Graduate Student Association in USA,
Nonprofit Campaign Award from the Media
Alliance, outstanding service award from
USAID, AIU teaching innovation award,
IBM Solution award, IBM Hero award, Open Group Oustanding Data Scientist award, the 2024 Banner I. Miller Award from the American Meteorological Society
and Fulbright Fellowship,

 Alex has a Ph.D. of Quantitative Sociology and a M.S. of
Statistical Computing from Stanford
University.
His publications include "Transforming
Healthcare with Big Data and AI",
"Apache
Spark Machine Learning Blueprints",
"Structural Equation Modeling and Latent
Variable Approaches", "Building Regression Models in Social
Science", "Building Structural Equation
Models in Social Science", "4Capital
Theory - Material Capital, Intellectual
Capital, Social Capital and Spiritual
Capital" and "Patterns
and Results of the Third Democratization
Wave".
     
Please
click HERE
for Alex's profile at LinkedIn,
and
HERE for Alex's profile
at GRMDS.
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