Chunlei Tang, PhD | Academic Curriculum Vitae

Academic Focus

Data science and information systems research focusing on data as an economic resource, asset, and capital, with applications in healthcare and socio-technical systems.

Research Interests

Data Economics and Data Capital
Information Systems and Data Infrastructures
Data-driven Healthcare and Clinical Informatics

External Links

Google Scholar | ORCID

Selected Publications

Books

1. Tang C. Data Capital: How Data is Reinventing Capital for Globalization. Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer; 2021.

Publisher Springer Nature

Citations

2. Tang C. The Data Industry: The Business and Economics of Information and Big Data. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley; 2018.

Publisher Wiley Online Library

Papers

1. Wang Q., Lai K.H., Tang C. Solving combinatorial optimization problems over graphs with BERT-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning. Information Sciences 619, 930–946 (2023).

DOI 10.1016/j.ins.2022.11.073 Citations PlumX

2. Tang C. , Ma J., Zhou L., Plasek J., He Y., Xiong Y., Zhu Y., Huang Y., Bates D. Improving Research Patient Data Repositories From a Health Data Industry Viewpoint. J Med Internet Res 24(5):e32845 (2022).

DOI 10.2196/32845

Citations

3. Wang Q., Tang C. Deep reinforcement learning for transportation network combinatorial optimization: A survey. Knowledge-Based Systems 233, 107526 (2021).

DOI 10.1016/j.knosys.2021.107526 Citations PlumX

4. Tang C. , Plasek J. M., Shi X., Wan M., Zhang H., Kang M.-J., Wang L., Dulgarian S. M., Xiong Y., Ma J., Bates D. W., Zhou L. Estimating Time to Progression of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease With Tolerance. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 25(1):175–180 (2021).

DOI 10.1109/JBHI.2020.2992259 Citations IEEE Metrics

5. Tang C. , Plasek J. M., Zhu Y., & Huang Y. Data sovereigns for the world economy. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 7, 184 (2020).

DOI 10.1057/s41599-020-00664-y

Citations

6. Tang C. , Plasek J. M., Zhu Y., Huang Y., Bates D. W. Following data as it crosses borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Am Med Inform Assoc 27(7):1139–1141 (2020).

Tang C. and Plasek J. M. contributed equally to this work.

DOI 10.1093/jamia/ocaa063

Citations

7. Tang C. , Plasek J. M., Bates D. W. Rethinking Data Sharing at the Dawn of a Health Data Economy: A Viewpoint. J Med Internet Res 20(11):e11519 (2018).

DOI 10.2196/11519

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Education / Training

Postdoctoral Training (Focus: Medical Informatics), Harvard Medical School
Nursing Clinical Training (Vocational Program + Hospital Internship), Loudi City Health School

PhD, Computer and Software Theory (Data Mining), Fudan University
MSE, Software Engineering, Fudan University
BS, Computer Networking, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
BS, Nursing, The Open University of China

Professional Service

Member, SCGES (Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science)
Service roles with IEEE Boston Section
Service roles with ACM-W (Association for Computing Machinery – Women)