Xinyang (Allen) Liu is a lecturer in Business Analytics at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. Mr Liu received his B.Sc in Finance from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and M.Sc in Financial Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, then doing his Ph.D. at the University of Surrey. 

His Ph.D. thesis focuses on econometrics and its application in demand forecasting and tourism management. He has published top-tier journal articles about time series modelling and forecasting, including Tourism Management and the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. He is a member of the International Institute of Forecasting (IIF) and the International Association of Tourism Economics (IATE) and serves as a reviewer in Annuals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights. 

He is currently working on the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCert) and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.