{"id":97,"date":"2019-10-09T17:40:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datascience.utk.edu\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:43:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/charles-liu\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--start Resume--><div id=\"Resume\"><center><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/chuanren-liu.jpg\" width=\"200px\"><\/p><\/center>\n<p>\n<b>Chuanren Liu<\/b> is an Associate Professor, Beaman Professor of Business, and Sampson Enterprises Faculty Fellow in the Business Analytics and Statistics Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHis research interests include data mining and artificial intelligence, and their integration with business analytics.\nHe has published papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Information Sciences, Knowledge and Information Systems and SIGKDD, ICDM, SDM, AAAI, IJCAI, IEEE BigData, DSAA, etc.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nChuanren Liu received the Ph.D. in Management (Information Technology) from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA, the M.S. degree in Mathematics from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), and the B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).\n<\/p><\/div><!--end Resume-->\n\n\n\n<p>To contact Dr. ChuanRen Liu:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: cliu89#utk#edu (please replace the two #s with @ and .  respectively)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-research-innovation-amp-economic-development wp-block-embed-research-innovation-amp-economic-development\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"00DqhwUd0n\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/oried\/2025\/05\/13\/university-of-tennessee-faculty-use-artificial-intelligence-to-solve-problems-in-and-outside-the-classroom\/\">University of Tennessee Faculty Use Artificial Intelligence to Solve Problems In and Outside the Classroom\u00a0<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;University of Tennessee Faculty Use Artificial Intelligence to Solve Problems In and Outside the Classroom\u00a0&#8221; &#8212; Research, Innovation &amp; Economic Development\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/oried\/2025\/05\/13\/university-of-tennessee-faculty-use-artificial-intelligence-to-solve-problems-in-and-outside-the-classroom\/embed\/#?secret=2KxTucAGrk#?secret=00DqhwUd0n\" data-secret=\"00DqhwUd0n\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/oried\/2025\/05\/13\/university-of-tennessee-faculty-use-artificial-intelligence-to-solve-problems-in-and-outside-the-classroom\/\">https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/oried\/2025\/05\/13\/university-of-tennessee-faculty-use-artificial-intelligence-to-solve-problems-in-and-outside-the-classroom\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sciencex.com\/wire-news\/508654829\/university-of-tennessee-faculty-use-artificial-intelligence-to-s.html\">https:\/\/sciencex.com\/wire-news\/508654829\/university-of-tennessee-faculty-use-artificial-intelligence-to-s.html<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1083787\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1083787<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/news\/haslam-faculty-recognized-for-professional-promise\/\">https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/news\/haslam-faculty-recognized-for-professional-promise\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/news\/business-professor-named-ieee-next-generation-data-scientist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/news\/business-professor-named-ieee-next-generation-data-scientist<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/spotlights\/charles-liu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/spotlights\/charles-liu<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/experts\/chuanren-liu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/experts\/chuanren-liu<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph.D. Graduates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Harshvardhan, American University of Sharjah<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yang Li, Montclair State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yuyue Chen, Lehigh University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To contact Dr. ChuanRen Liu: Email: cliu89#utk#edu (please replace the two #s with @ and . respectively) Related links: https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/oried\/2025\/05\/13\/university-of-tennessee-faculty-use-artificial-intelligence-to-solve-problems-in-and-outside-the-classroom\/ https:\/\/sciencex.com\/wire-news\/508654829\/university-of-tennessee-faculty-use-artificial-intelligence-to-s.htmlhttps:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1083787https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/news\/haslam-faculty-recognized-for-professional-promise\/https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/news\/business-professor-named-ieee-next-generation-data-scientisthttps:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/spotlights\/charles-liuhttps:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/experts\/chuanren-liu Ph.D. Graduates:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/charles-liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/charles-liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/charles-liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/charles-liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/charles-liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"\/charles-liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"\/charles-liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/charles-liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}