Education

September 2003 – June 2006, PhD in Statistics, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

Research field: Big data and data mining techniques in the Economic Systems Research

September 2000 – April 2003, Master in Statistics, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

Research field: Data analytics and programming in the Household Income and Healthcare System

September 1996 – July 2000, Bachelor in Statistics, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

Professional Experiences

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales

Visiting Professorial Fellow, September 2019 – September 2021

Center for Integrated Sustainability Analysis, School of Physics, University of Sydney

Visiting Professor, August 2015 – February 2016

Visiting Scholar, July 2012 – July 2013

School of Statistics, Beijing Normal University

Professor, November 2014 – Present

Institute of National Accounts, Beijing Normal University

Professor, September 2013 – Present

Associate Professor, June 2011 – September 2013

Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University

Postdoctoral Fellow, May 2007 – May 2009

School of Statistics, Central University of Finance and Economics

Associate Professor, September 2008 – June 2011

Lecturer, July 2006 – September 2008

Teaching and Services

Teaching and lectures

Beijing Normal University

Data Analytics and Statistical Software, Fall 2017, Fall 2018

International Frontiers of Data Science, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018

Data Science and Analytics in Finance and Accounting, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020

Central University of Financial and Economics

Data Analytics and Statistical Software, Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2010

Modern Statistical Software and Programming, Fall 2006, Fall 2010, Spring 2011

Data Science and Analytics in Finance and Accounting, Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010

Student/Postdoctoral Advisees

I supervise postgraduates and postdocs in the Data Science and related fields.

Postdoctoral advisees

Guangwu Chen, International Fellow in Data Science, 2018-2020

PhD students

Qinghua Xie, Data Science in Resource and Environment Economics, 2015

Yali Dong, Data Science and Big Data Technology, 2017

Chunyun Wang, Data Science and Big Data Technology, 2018

Lixiao Xu, Data Science and Big Data Technology, 2019

Lixin Du, Data Science and Big Data Technology, 2020

Qiao Huang, Data Science and Big Data Technology, expected 2021

Rui Wang, Data Science and Big Data Technology, expected 2021

Xuemei Jia, Data Science and Big Data Technology, expected 2022

Fei Zhang, Data Science and Big Data Technology, expected 2022

Jiahao Feng, Data Science and Big Data Technology, expected 2023

Yu Liu, Data Science and Big Data Technology, expected 2025

Master students by research

Lixia Zhang, Data Science and Big Data Technology, 2015

Lixiao Xu, Data Science and Big Data Technology, 2016

Jingliang Xie, Data Science and Big Data Technology, 2017

Qiao Huang, Data Science and Big Data Technology, 2018

Mingna Li, Data Science and Big Data Technology, expected 2023

Master students by courses

Rui Jiao, Data Science and Applied Statistics, 2017

Ge Tian, Data Science and Applied Statistics, 2017

Xuemei Jia, Data Science and Applied Statistics, 2018

Jing Tian, Data Science and Applied Statistics, 2018

Ruru Wu, Data Science and Applied Statistics, 2018

Jiajing Zhang, Data Science and Applied Statistics, expected 2021

Huayue Chen, Data Science and Applied Statistics, expected 2021

Xintian Bai, Data Science and Applied Statistics, expected 2021

School and University services

Assistant Dean of School of Statistics, 3/2016-8/2019

Head of the Department of Economic Statistics, 11/2014-present

PhD Committee, School of Statistics, 11/2014-present

Research Committee, School of Statistics, 11/2014-present

Research Committee, Institute of National Accounts, 01/2011-present

Selected Publications

Journal articles

Postgraduate, postdocs and researchers collaborate with me using my databases and cloud-computing data lab. They are usually the first authors in the publications. First authors and *corresponding authors are leading authors, where the latter have a leading role in articles.

Development of Data Lab and big data system

Wang, Y., 2017. An industrial ecology virtual framework for policy making in China. Economic Systems Research 29, 252-274.

Wang, Y., Geschke, A., Lenzen, M.*, 2017. Constructing a time series of nested multiregion input–output tables. International Regional Science Review 40, 476-499.

Applications of Data Lab

Li M., Wiedmann T.*, Liu J.*, Wang Y.*, Hu Y., Zhang Z., Hadjikakou M., 2020. Exploring consumption-based planetary boundary indicators: An absolute water footprinting assessment of Chinese provinces and cities. Water Research, 116163.

Hu, Y., Su, M., Wang, Y., Cui, S., Meng, F., Yue, W., Liu, Y., Xu, C., Yang, Z., 2020. Food production in China requires intensified measures to be consistent with national and provincial environmental boundaries. Nature Food 1, 572-582.

Huang, Q., Chen, G., Wang, Y.*, Xu, L., Chen, W.-Q., 2020. Identifying the socioeconomic drivers of solid waste recycling in China for the period 2005–2017. Science of The Total Environment 725, 138137.

Huang, Q., Chen, G., Wang, Y.*, Chen, S., Xu, L., Wang, R., 2020. Modelling the global impact of China’s ban on plastic waste imports. Resources, Conservation & Recycling 154, 104607.

Wang, C., Malik, A., Wang, Y., Chang, Y., Pang, M., Zhou, D., 2020. Understanding the resource-use and environmental impacts of bioethanol production in China based on a MRIO-based hybrid LCA model. Energy 203, 117877.

Wang, C., Malik, A., Wang, Y., Chang, Y., Lenzen, M., Zhou, D., Pang, M., Huang, Q., 2020. The social, economic, and environmental implications of biomass ethanol production in China: A multi-regional input-output-based hybrid LCA model. Journal of Cleaner Production 249, 119326.

Wang, Y., Wang, R*., Xu, L., 2020. Employment effects of floating population’s consumption: A multi-regional input-output perspective. Chinese Journal of Population Science 34, 44-55-27. (In Chinese)

Xu, L., Chen, G., Wiedmann, T., Wang, Y.*, Geschke, A., Shi, L., 2019. Supply-side carbon accounting and mitigation analysis for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration in China. Journal of Environmental Management 248, 109243.

Chen, G., Zhu, Y., Wiedmann, T., Yao, L., Xu, L., Wang, Y.*, 2019. Urban-rural disparities of household energy requirements and influence factors in China: Classification tree models. Applied Energy 250, 1321-1335.

Liang, S.*, Wang, Y., Zhang, C., Xu, M., Yang, Z., Liu, W., Liu, H., Chiu, A.S.F., 2018. Final production-based emissions of regions in China. Economic Systems Research 30, 18-36.

Applications of big data system

Zhao, N., Xu, L., Malik, A., Song, X., Wang, Y.*, 2018. Inter-provincial trade driving energy consumption in China. Resources, Conservation & Recycling 134, 329-335.

Fry, J., Lenzen, M., Jin, Y., Wakiyama, T., Baynes, T., Wiedmann, T., Malik, A., Chen, G., Wang, Y., Geschke, A., Schandl, H., 2018. Assessing carbon footprints of cities under limited information. Journal of Cleaner Production 176, 1254-1270.

Hui, M., Wu, Q., Wang, S., Liang, S., Zhang, L., Wang, F., Lenzen, M., Wang, Y., Xu, L., Lin, Z., Yang, H., Lin, Y., Larssen, T., Xu, M., Hao, J., 2017. Mercury flows in China and global drivers. Environmental Science & Technology 51, 222-231.

Zhu, Z., Liu, Y., Tian, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., 2017. CO₂ emissions from the industrialization and urbanization processes in the manufacturing center Tianjin in China. Journal of Cleaner Production 168, 867-875.

Pang, M., Zhang, L., Liang, S., Liu, G., Wang, C., Hao, Y., Wang, Y., Xu, M., 2017. Trade-off between carbon reduction benefits and ecological costs of biomass-based power plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) in China. Journal of Cleaner Production 144, 279-286.

Chen, G., Wiedmann, T., Wang, Y.*, Hadjikakou, M., 2016. Transnational city carbon footprint networks – Exploring carbon links between Australian and Chinese cities. Applied Energy 184, 1082-1092.

Wu, Q., Wang, S., Li, G., Liang, S., Lin, C.-J., Wang, Y., Cai, S., Liu, K., Hao, J., 2016. Temporal trend and spatial distribution of speciated atmospheric mercury emissions in China during 1978–2014. Environmental Science & Technology 50, 13428-13435.

Liang, S., Wang, Y.*, Cinnirella, S., Pirrone, N., 2015. Atmospheric mercury footprints of nations. Environmental Science & Technology 49, 3566-3574.

Liang, S., Zhang, C., Wang, Y., Xu, M., Liu, W., 2014. Virtual atmospheric mercury emission network in China. Environmental Science & Technology 48, 2807-2815.

Databases harmonization and data analytics

Cheng, M., Chen, G., Wiedmann, T., Hadjikakou, M., Xu, L., Wang, Y.*, 2020. The sharing economy and sustainability – assessing Airbnb’s direct, indirect and induced carbon footprint in Sydney. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 28, 1083-1099.

Lenzen, M., Li M., Malik Arunima*, Pomponi Francesco, Sun Y., Wiedmann T., Wang, Y. et al., 2020. Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic. PLoS ONE 15(7): e0235654.

Qi, J., Wang, Y., Liang, S., Li, Y., Li, Y., Feng, C., Xu, L., Wang, S., Chen, L., Wang, D., Yang, Z., 2019. Primary suppliers driving atmospheric mercury emissions through global supply chains. One Earth 1, 254-266.

Chen, G., Shan, Y., Hu, Y., Tong, K., Wiedmann, T., Ramaswami, A., Guan, D., Shi, L., Wang, Y.*, 2019. Review on city-level carbon accounting. Environmental Science & Technology 53, 5545-5558.

Wang, C., Wang, Y.*, 2019. Measurement method and application of China’s rate of return to digital capital. The Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics 36, 123-144. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., Wang, C.*, 2018. Capital stock measurement of research and development at Chinese manufacturing industries. Statistical Research 35, 16-27. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., Wang, C.*, 2018. Capital stock accounting of research and development at Chinese Industrial level. The Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics 35, 94-110. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., Wang, C.*, 2017. Capital service accounting of information and communication technology at industrial level of China. Statistical Research 34, 24-36. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., Zhao, H., Li, L., Liu, Z., Liang, S., 2013. Carbon dioxide emission drivers of a typical metropolis using input-output structural decomposition analysis. Energy Policy 58, 312-318.

Wang, Y., Liang, S., 2013. Carbon dioxide mitigation target of China in 2020 and key economic sectors. Energy Policy 58, 90-96.

Liang, S., Liu, Z., Crawford-Brown, D., Wang, Y., Xu, M., 2013. Decoupling analysis and socioeconomic drivers of environmental pressure in China. Environmental Science & Technology 48, 1103-1113.

Liang, S., Zhang, T., Wang, Y., Jia, X., 2012. Sustainable urban materials management for air pollutants mitigation based on urban physical input–output model. Energy 42, 387-392.

Wang, Y., 2012. Framework of physical input-output accounting in economic system. Statistical Research, 27-31. (In Chinese)

Other publications related to data analytics

Li, B., Han, S., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Li, J., Wang, Y.*, 2020. Feasibility assessment of the carbon emissions peak in China's construction industry: Factor decomposition and peak forecast. Science of The Total Environment 706, 135716.

Wang, Y., Liao, M., Wang, Y.*, 2020. Does the high-speed railway promote the growth of agricultural total factor productivity? ——An empirical evidence from the quasi-natural experiment in the Yangtze River Delta. Statistical Research 37, 40-53. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., Liao, M., Wang, Y.*, Malik, A., Xu, L., 2019. Carbon emission effects of the coordinated development of two-way foreign direct investment in China. Sustainability 11.

Liang, S., Wang, Y.*, Zhang, T., Yang, Z., 2017. Structural analysis of material flows in China based on physical and monetary input-output models. Journal of Cleaner Production 158, 209-217.

Wang, Y., Xie Q., 2014. Regional resource consumption and its drivers in China. Statistical Research 31, 66-71. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., 2011. Linkage analysis of sectoral productive land in Beijing. China Population, Resources and Environment, 56-60. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., 2011. The impacts of environmental protection of public finance on environmental pollution in China. Public Finance Research, 38-42. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., 2011. The impacts of urbanization on resource consumption and emissions in China. Urban Studies, 53-57+71. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., 2011. Tests and analysis the dynamic relationship of resource consumption and economic growth in China. Resources Science, 25-30. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., Yu Y., 2010. Linkage analysis of dematerialization and economic growth in China. China Population, Resources and Environment, 112-119. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., 2010. Balance accounting of sustainable aggregates in the economic system from the perspective of material flow accounting. Statistical Research, 56-62. (In Chinese)

Wang, Y., 2010. Variance and forecasts of Beijing’s ecological footprint. Urban Studies, 82-89. (In Chinese)

Books/Chapter in Books

Data analytics and database applications

Wang, Y., 2020. A Triple Bottom Line Analysis for China, China’s Chapter in Murray J., Malik A., Simas M., and Owen A., A World Atlas of The Triple Bottom Line Analysis. Pan Stanford Publishing, Forthcoming in 2021.

Wang, Y., Xu L., 2018. Assessing the Structure and Social Effects of China’s Provincial Labour Landscape, Chapter 9 in Murray J., Malik A., Geschke A., The Social Effects of Global Trade. Pan Stanford Publishing, ISBN 9789814774550.

Wang, Y., Zhang L., 2014. Ecological Capacity of Supporting Beijing’s Low Carbon Development. Beijing: China Statistics Press, ISBN 9787503770418. (In Chinese)

Projects

Development of Data Lab and big data system

2016-2021, Single Chief Investigator, “Construction of Chinese Multi-Regional Input-Output Database”, the Major Program of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China (16ZDA051)

Applications of data science and big data technology

2019-2022, Co‐Chief Investigator (CI: Dong Qiu), “International Comparison of the Real Economic Size of China and the United States using big data and digitalisation technology”, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71873019)

2019-2022, Co‐Chief Investigator (CI: Sai Liang), “The Resilience of Phosphorus Cycling Network and its Historical Evolution Trends and Sustainable P Management in China”, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71874014)

2015-2019, Single Chief Investigator, “Digitalisation of Capital and Applications in Growth Accounting and Productivity”, the Key Program of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China (15AZD052)

2012-2018, Single Chief Investigator, “Carbon footprint Accounting using Chinese Multi-Regional Input-Output Database”, the General Program of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China (12BTJ013)

Databases harmonization and data analytics

2018-2023, Co‐Chief Investigator (CI: Dong Qiu), “Data and Measurement Issues of International Statistical Standards and Methodological Foundations of their Implementations in China”, the Major Program of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China (18ZDA123)

2011-2016, Co‐Chief Investigator (CI: Xuguang Song), “Data System of Energy-Environmental-Economic Accounting in China”, the Major Program of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China (11&ZD045)

2011-2013, Single Chief Investigator, “Ecological Capacity of Supporting Beijing’s Low Carbon Development based on Beijing’s Big Data System”, Beijing Natural Science Foundation (8112026)

2010-2012, Single Chief Investigator, “Physical-Flow Input-Output Modelling and Applications Based on EW-MFA data system”, The Humanity and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education in China (10YJCZH164)

2009-2014, Co‐Chief Investigator (CI: Dong Qiu), “Quality Management of National Statistical Data in China”, the Major Program of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China (09&ZD040)

2006-2011, Co‐Chief Investigator (CI: Dong Qiu), “Data System of Resource-Environmental-Population-Economic Capacity in China”, the Major Program of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (06JZD0020)

2006-2009, Co‐Chief Investigator (CI: Dong Qiu), “Data System of Resource-Environmental-Population-Economic Capacity in Beijing”, the Key Program of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of Beijing (06AaJG0024)

2006-2009, Single Chief Investigator, “Statistical Methodology and Data Integration of International Trade in Services”, the Youth Program of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China (06CTJ002)

Presentations at international conferences

“Constructing city-level multi-regional input-output database using big data and cloud-computing technology”, IELab Conference 2020, 3-5 February 2020, Lutanda Mt Victoria Conference & Recreation Centre, the Blue Mountains, New South Wales

“The Impacts of digitalisation on China’s economic system”, The 62nd World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, August 18-23, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

“City-level multi-regional input-output accounting using big data tools”, The 27th International Input-Output Conference, June 30 - July 5, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

“Comparison of purchasing power parity between China and the United States using big data and web crawler technology”, International Conference of Fifty Years of International Comparison Program: Achievements and Moving Forward, October 29-30, 2018, Beijing, China

“Digitalized capital measurement of research and development of Chinese manufacturing industries”, The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) 35th General Conference, August 20-25, 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark

“A sub-national multi-regional input-output laboratory for policy making in China”, The 25th International Input-Output Conference, June 19 - 23, 2017, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.A.

“Mapping the structure of the global flow-of-funds analysis based on the big data technology”, The 60th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, July 26-31, 2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“Constructing a time series of Chinese multi-region input-output database using big data technology”, The 22^nd International Input-Output Conference, July 14 - 18, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal.

Honors and Awards

Special Support Plan for National High-Level Talents of China (known as Wanren Jihua) —— Youth Talents (No. W03070143) by Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China in 2018 (I am the first one who got the honour in the field of Data Science in China.)

Support Plan for New Century Excellent Talents in University by Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China in 2013

“Carbon Dioxide Emission Drivers for a Typical Metropolis Using Input-output Structural Decomposition Analysis”, Second Prize of Outstanding Works of Beijing Fourteenth Philosophy and Social Science issued by Beijing Committee of the Communist Party of China and The People’s Government of Beijing Municipality in August, 2017

Professional Activities

Database Development

Chinese Industrial Ecology Laboratory in the IELab: https://ielab.info

Chinese Multi-Regional Input-Output Database in the worldmiro database: http://www.worldmrio.com

Membership

International Statistical Institute, 2013-present

International Input-Output Association, 2014-present

Conference committees and organization

Session Organiser of Special Topic Sessions “Measurement issues in an age of digital technologies”, The 62nd World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, August 18-23, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Session Chair of Environment-Extended IO Analysis at City Level, The 27th International Input-Output Conference, June 30 - July 5, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Co‐Chair, International Conference of Chinese Virtual Laboratory, April 22-23, 2019, Suzhou, China

Organizing Committee, International Conference of Fifty Years of International Comparison Program: Achievements and Moving Forward, October 29-30, 2018, Beijing, China

Co‐Chair, International Conference of Chinese Virtual Laboratory, December 15-16, 2016, Suzhou, China

Services to scientific and professional organizations

Executive Member of China Statistical Education Association, 2019-present

Council Member of China National Account Association, 2020-present