Xuqing was born in 1985 in a middle size city Jinhua in Zhejiang Province, China. His name is pronounced as /shuchin/, which carries hope that this boy would be a high level officer like the sun in the morning. You know parents tend to visualize a rosy future when they just have the baby, which usually won't become true. Luckily, they still love their boy the same when he chose Physics as his major in Univeristy of Science and Technology of China (2003-2007). After graduating with hornor, Xuqing came to Boston University to pursue his Ph.D degree on Physics. Here he met Professor H. Eugene Stanley, and found his interest in statistical physics and related interdisciplinary science, e.g. complex network science, econophysics.

Story to be continued...

Hopefully it's "Then Xuqing begins to live happily ever after."

Research

My main research interests are in complex networks theory and application and econophysics.

• Complex Networks:
  Complex systems which are composed of many interacting entities can be represented, analyzed and better understood using a network representation, where the entities are represented by nodes and the interactions by links.
  I am interested in developing new suitable theories and approaches as well as their applications, such as robustness, effective immunization strategies and optimal transport in real world networks.
  
• Econophysics:
  Generally, it means using Statistical Physics Concepts to Better Understand Economic Questions.
  To me, as a physicist, I view the economy as a collection of interacting units. This collection is complex; everything depends on everything else. Thus the complex networks models and theories can be applied to study these economic systems, which enables physicists to quantitatively understand and even predict some economic and finance problems and phenomena.

Projects and Pulications

• Robustness of Interdependent Networks with Clustering, working paper
• Systemic Risk of Bank System of US Caused by Asset Allocation, working paper
• X. Huang, J. Gao, S. V. Buldyrev, S. Havlin, H. E. Stanley, Robustness of Interdependent Networks Under Targeted Attack, Phys. Rev. E 83, 065101(R) (2011)
• X. Huang, I. Vodenska, F. Wang, S. Havlin, H. E. Stanley, Identify the Most Influential Directors in US Corporate Governance Network, Phys. Rev. E 84, 046101 (2011)

Talks and Presentations

• International Conference on Econophysics (2011), Shanghai, China.
• NetSci 2010, MIT, Boston, USA.

Teaching

PY105, PY106, PY211, PY212

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Useful Resources

• Links to Useful Data
• NetworkX (Network Graph Tool)
• Ubuntu is good for you

Updated Jul 23, 2011