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 RM4Es ^TM and ResearchMap ^TM technologies to make research flow management easy. 

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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.

In 1993, Alex graduated from Stanford University with a M.S. of Statistical Computing and a Ph.D. of Sociology. From 1993 to 1994, 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 on statistically modelling democratization plus a few articles on quantitatively modelling health care systems, Mr. Liu devoted a lot of his time to promote democracy in China, with his activities widely reported by Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and other media.

After served as a consultant to a venture capital firm in 1994, Alex became interested in developing entrepreneurship with a focus on serving poor regions, which made him an expert of global entrepreneurship and led him to develop a 4Capital framework for modelling entrepreneurial process.

Since 2001, Dr. Liu has focused his energy on developing tools to manage research flows for social research and business analytics. Under the RM Institute, Alex has provided methodology consultation to many organizations including the IBM Research, the United Nations, Indymac Bank, AOL, Ingram Micro, GEM and USAID that gave him opportunities to develop measurement methods of organizational performance, consumer purchasing, social impacts of investment projects, loan risk, entrepreneurship, social capital, democracy and spiritual capital.  From January 2002 to December 2009, 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, Kenya, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.   

In 2004, Dr. Alex Liu invented the RM4Es^TM and ResearchMap^TM frameworks that are becoming the foundation for modern research flow management software systems.

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  ResearchMethods.org