Dr. Ruiqi Li

Associate Professor

Editor：College of Information Science and Technology Time：2024-01-20

Dr. Ruiqi Li


Associate Professor

Director of UrbanNet Lab

Email: lir@buct.edu.cn


Background                                                                  

Dr. Ruiqi Li is currently an Associate Professor at College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and director of UrbanNet Lab. He got his Bachelor degree in Computer Science at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He obtained his PhD degree in Systems Science at Beijing Normal University, and was a visiting PhD at Department of Civil Environmental Engineering at MIT, and a visiting scholar at Department of Physics at Boston University. His main research interests cover urban modeling and computation, complex network, human mobility, and epidemic spreading dynamics. He established an UrbanNet Lab at BUCT, which focus on gaining better understanding the urban systems with network science, big data, and advanced technologies. He also serves as an Associate Editor for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (SSCI & AHCI), Scientific Reports (SCI), Review Editor in Social Physics for Frontiers in Physics (SCI), committee members of Activity Group on Systems Theory of the Systems Engineering Society of China, and Activity Group on Social Computing and Social Intelligence of CAAI, PC member of Conference on Systems Science (CCS) 2019, Big Data & Social Computing (BDSC) 2022-2023, Complex Networks & its Applications (CNA) 2023.

 He has published around 20 papers on SCI and SSCI peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Communications, Chaos, Physical Review E, Scientific Reports, CEUS, Journal of Cleaner Production, Physica A, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, with a total citation more than 760. And he has presented his works on StatPhys25/26/28, CCS2014/2019, NetSci2018/2023, NetSciX2018, etc. He is also reviewers for some SCI and SSCI journals and top conferences, including Nature Human Behaviour, Expert Systems with Applications, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Cities, Scientific Reports, Habitat International, Journal of Statistical Mechanics, Physica A, IJMPC, JSSC, TheWebConf (WWW), IEEE VIS, CCS.

Areas of Research of Expertise

  • Urban science, smart cities, urban computation & modeling, human mobility, epidemic spreading dynamics

  • Complex networks, community detection & clustering analysis

Memberships

  • Systems Engineering Society of China (SESC) Activity Group on Systems Theory [Committee Member]

  • Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) Activity Group on Social Computing and Social Intelligence [Committee Member]

  • Chinese Association for Automation (CAA) Activity Group on Computing Society and Social Intelligence [Committee Member]

Teaching                                             

Undergraduate Teaching

  • Data Structure

  • Advances in Computer Science

  • Python Programming

Postgraduate Teaching

  • Introduction to Complex Networks

Research                                                

Funded Research Projects

The National Natural Science Foundation of China:

  • Research on the impacts of the coherent evolution of multi-city systems on scaling heterogeneity

  • Designing evaluating metrics of sustainable development of urban metro systems from the perspective of complex network

Main Achievements & Awards

  • Distinguished Reviewer Award of BDSC

  • Outstanding Supervisor of Undergraduate Thesis of BUCT

  • Outstanding Supervisor of Undergraduate Thesis of Beijing

  • Rising Star Award on Young Scholars in Social Computing

  • Outstanding Mentor of BUCT

Publications                                           

Urban Modelling and Urban Computation

  1. Ruiqi Li, Lei Dong, Jiang Zhang*, Xinran Wang, Wenxu Wang*, Zengru Di, H. Eugene Stanley*. Simple spatial scaling rules behind complex cities. Nature Communications (Top, IF 13.691), 2017, 8: 1841.

  2. Ruiqi Li*, Yu Yang, Ankang Luo, Fan Shang, Linyuan Lv*, Jingfang Fan*, Gang Lu, Liming Pan, Lixin Tian, H. Eugene Stanley*. Emergence of Scaling in Dockless Bike-sharing Systems. 2022, arXiv:2202.06352.

  3.  Chenxin Liu, Yu Yang, Bingsheng Chen*, Tianyu Cui, Fan Shang, Jingfang Fan*, Ruiqi Li*. Revealing spatio-temporal interaction patterns behind complex cities. Chaos (SCI, Top), 2022, 32: 081105.

  4.  Lei Dong, Ruiqi Li*, Jiang Zhang*, Zengru Di. Population-weighted efficiency in transportation networks. Scientific Reports (SCI), 2016, 6: 26377.

  5. Ruiqi Li*, Shuai Gao, Ankang Luo, Qing Yao*, Bingsheng Chen, Fan Shang, Rui Jiang, H. Eugene Stanley*. Gravity model in dockless bike-sharing systems within cities. Physical Review E (SCI), 2021, 103: 012312.

  6. Ruiqi Li, Lingyun Lu, Tianyu Cui, Weiwei Gu*, Shaodong Ma, Gang Xu*, H. Eugene Stanley*. Assessing the attraction of cities on venture capital from a scaling law perspective. IEEE Access (SCI), 2021, 9: 48052-48063.

  7.  Xinze Qiu, Tianli Gao, Yu Yang, Jianying Wang, Ankang Luo, Yongping Zhang*, Fan Shang*, Ruiqi Li*. Understanding urban congestion with biking traffic and routing detour ratio. 2022,arXiv: 2205.08118.

  8.  Chen Wang, Lu Wang, Yanbo Xue, Ruiqi Li*. Revealing spatial spillover effect in high-tech industry agglomeration from a high-skilled labor flow network perspective. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity (SCI), 2022, 35: 839-859.

  9.  Yu Yang, Tianli Gao, Zikun Xu*, Chenxin Liu, Fan Shang, Ruiqi Li*. Quantifying relation between mobility patterns and socioeconomic status of dockless sharing-bike users, 2022, arXiv:2204.03894.

  10.  Gang Xu, Zhengzi Zhou, Limin Jiao*, Ting Dong, Ruiqi Li*. Cross-sectional Urban Scaling Fails in Predicting Temporal Growth of Cities. 2019, arXiv:1910.06732.

  11. Ruiqi Li,Chenxin Liu, Fan Shang, Zengru Di*.Advances on urban modeling and urban computation: From a perspective of systems science. Journal of UESTC (EI), 2022, 51(5): 786-799 [in Chinese]

  12.  Zengru Di, Ruiqi Li. Mining universal laws behind complex systems. Advances on Systems Science (Volume 2) (Edited by Lei Guo), China Science Publishing, 2019, Chapter 3: 26-40. [in Chinese]

  13.  Yanyan Xu, Shan Jiang, Ruiqi Li, Jiang Zhang, Jinhua Zhao, Sofiane Abbark, Marta C. Gonzalez*. Unraveling Environmental Justice in Ambient PM2.5 Exposure in Beijing: A Big Data Approach. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (SSCI), 2019, 75: 12-21.

  14.  Huimin Xu, Zhicong Chen, Ruiqi Li, Cheng-Jun Wang*. The Geometry of Information Cocoon: Analyzing the Cultural Space with Word Embedding Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10083

Complex Networks

  1.  Fan Shang#, Dingyi Shi#, Bingsheng Chen*, Paul Expert, Linyuan Lv*, Ao Yang H. Eugene Stanley, Renaud Lambiotte, Tim S. Evans, Ruiqi Li*. Local dominance unveils clusters in networks. 2022, arXiv: 2209.15497.

  2. Ruiqi Li*, Jing Liang, Cheng Cheng*, Xiaoyan Zhang, Longfeng Zhao, Chen Zhao, H. Eugene Stanley*. The evolution of k-shell in syndication networks reveals financial performance of venture capital institutions. Social Networks (SCI, Top), 2023, under review / arXiv:2305.10762.

  3.  Qing Yao, Shaodong Ma, Jing Liang, Kim Christensen, Wanru Jing, Ruiqi Li*. Syndication network associates with specialisation and performance of venture capital firms. Journal of Physics: Complexity (SCI), 2023, 4(2): 025016.

  4. Weiwei Gu, Ao Yang*, Lingyun Lu, Ruiqi Li*. Unveiling latent structure of venture capital syndication networks. Entropy (SCI), 2022, 24(10): 1506.

  5. Guangren Cai, Gang Lu*, Junxia Guo, Cheng Ling, Ruiqi Li*. Fast Representative Sampling in Large-Scale Online Social Networks. IEEE Access (SCI), 2020, 8: 77106-77120.

  6.  Xinmiao Sun, Ruiqi Li*. Modeling and Protecting Global Ecological Networks. International Journal of Modern Physics C (SCI), 2021, 32(04): 1-18.

  7.  Weiwei Gu, Fei Gao, Ruiqi Li*, Jiang Zhang*. Learning universal network representation via Link prediction by graph convolutional neural networks. Journal of Social Computing (EI), 2021, 2(1): 43–51.

  8.  Jarder Luo*, Ruiqi Li, Fangda Fan, Jie Tang. Repeated Cooperation Matters — An Analysis of Syndication in the Chinese VC Industry by ERGM Model. Chapter 7 of Social Network Analysis: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Case Studies, CRC Press, 2017, p177-p193.

  9.  Gaogao Dong, Ting Qing, Ruijin Du*, Chao Wang, Ruiqi Li, Minggang Wang, Lixin Tian, Lin Chen, André L.M. Vilela, H. Eugene Stanley. Complex network approach for the structural optimization of global crude oil trade system. Journal of Cleaner Production (SCI, Top), 2020, 251: 119366.

Epidemic Spreading dynamics

  1. Ruiqi Li, Ming Tang*, Pak-Ming Hui. Epidemic spreading on multi-relational networks. Acta Physica Sinica (SCI), 2013, 62(16): 168903. [in Chinese]

  2. Ruiqi Li, Peter Richmond, Bertrand M. Roehner*. Effect of population density on epidemics. Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (SCI), 2018, 510: 713-724.

  3. Ruiqi Li*, Wenxu Wang, Zengru Di*. Effects of human dynamics on epidemic spreading in Cote d'Ivoire. Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (SCI), 2017, 467: 30-40.

  4. Ruiqi Li, Wei Wang, Hui Yang, Panpan Shu, Liming Pan, Aixiang Cui, Ming Tang*. Review of Analytical Methods about Threshold in Epidemic Spreading in Complex Networks. Complex Systems and Complex Science (EI & CSCD), 2016, 13(1): 1-39. [in Chinese]

  5.  Lei Gao, Ruiqi Li, Wei Wang*, Panpan Shu, Hui Gao*, Shimin Cai. Effects of individual popularity on information spreading on complex networks. Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (SCI), 2018, 489: 32-39

Other Topics

  1.  Dingyi Shi#, Fengyi Zhou#, Wenbo Mu, Cheng Ling*, Tiancheng Mu, Gangqiang Yu*, Ruiqi Li*. Deep insights into the viscosity of Deep Eutectic Solvents by XGBoost-based model plus SHapley Additive explanation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (SCI, Top), 2022, 24 (42), 26029-26036.

  2. Xinmiao Sun, Ruiqi Li*, Zhen Yuan. Anomaly Detection in Discrete Manufacturing Systems by Pattern Relation Table Approaches. Sensors (SCI), 2020, 20: 5766.

  3.  Hongmei Lei, Ying Chen, Ruiqi Li, Deli He, Jiang Zhang*. Maximum Entropy for the International Division of Labor. PLoS One (SCI), 2015, 10(7), e0129955.

  4. Zhao Fei, Zhou Tao, Zhang Liang, Ma Minghui, Liu Jinhu, Yu Fei, Zha Yilong, Li Ruiqi. Research Progress on Wikipedia. Journal of UESTC (EI), 2010, 39(3). [in Chinese]