FAN Ningyuan received his Ph.D. degree in Management Science and Engineering from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. He is currently an Assistant Professor of the College of Tourism and Service Management at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. His research interests focus on tourism big data and artificial intelligence. He has published in leading academic journals such as Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management, Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, among others.