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Qiren Liu is an emerging scholar whose research sits at the intersection of technology, labor economics, and development, with a particular focus on how automation and artificial intelligence are reshaping economic and social outcomes in China. Liu's most influential work examines the employment consequences of robot adoption, exploring how industrial automation drives skill-biased shifts in China's labor market structure — a paper that has garnered 56 citations and established Liu as a notable voice in the robotics-and-labor literature. Building on this foundation, Liu has investigated which types of firms stand to gain most from embracing robotic technology, offering nuanced firm-level evidence that moves beyond aggregate analyses. Perhaps most distinctively, Liu's research extends into the human dimension of automation, probing the health consequences — both physical and psychological — that accompany rising robot adoption among workers. Most recently, Liu has broadened the scope of inquiry to examine how artificial intelligence influences outward foreign direct investment decisions by Chinese firms. Collectively, Liu's body of work, accumulating over 100 citations within just a few years, demonstrates a committed effort to understand the multifaceted human and economic consequences of the ongoing technological revolution.