Mr. Alex Liu has been studying scientific methods and computing for social research since 1982 when he was a college student and published his first paper about mathematically representing philosophical propositions. Now, under the RM Institute,  Dr. Liu develops RM ^TM technologies and 4Capital^TM models for social measurements and predictive modeling.

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Alex's Life Journey 

Alex Liu (Yong-chuan Liu) studied in China's Peking University and Northwestern Polytechnical University, before he came to Stanford University as a graduate student under a Fulbright Fellowship in 1986. When in China, Mr. Liu organized national surveys on policy reform and rural entrepreneurship, as well as published articles on empirical research methods. 

In 1993, Alex graduated from Stanford University with a M.S. of Statistical Computing and a Ph.D. of Sociology. From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Liu worked as a research fellow for the Asia/Pacific Research Center and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. During his years at Stanford, besides published a book "Patterns and Results of the Third Democratization Wave" and a few articles on quantitatively modeling health care systems, Mr. Liu became a well-known pro-democracy activist. His activities were widely reported by Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and other media.

From 1995 to 2000, after served as a consultant to a venture capital firm, Alex had a special entrepreneurial journey that made him a leading expert of global entrepreneurship.

Since 2001, Dr. Liu has focused his energy on developing tools for social measurement and predictive modeling. Under the RM Institute, Alex has provided methodology consultation and directed research teams for many organizations including the IBM Research, the United Nations, Indymac Bank, AOL, GEM and USAID that gave him opportunities to develop measurements and associated indices of organizational performance, consumer purchasing, social impacts of investment projects, loan risk, entrepreneurship, social capital, democracy and spiritual capital.  From 2001 to 2005, Alex taught advanced research methods to Ph.D. candidates and provided methods consultation to professors in the University of Southern California and the University of California at Irvine. He has often been invited to lecture not only in USA but also in many foreign countries that include Sweden, France, Japan, Canada, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Kenya, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.   

Recently, Dr. Alex Liu has been working to develop the RM4Es^TM and ResearchMap^TM frameworks with applications in measuring and predicting consumer behavior, program performance and financial risk.

Dr. Liu received many awards including Fulbright Fellowship, Nakamura Postdoctoral Fellowship, United States Students Association Outstanding Award, Media Alliance Non-profit Campaign Award, and AIU Online Faculty Award. 

Alex is a Christian and lives in Los Angeles.
　

Contact emails:  alex  AT  RMinst.org   OR   alex  AT  ResearchMethods.org

Click HERE for an essay on Alex's methods study journey from 1981 to 2006.

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