UCSD Communication

Name:	Ray-shyng Chou
Education:	Doctoral Candidate, Communication and Science Studies, University of California at San Diego, US MA, Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK (1998) MS, Computer and Information Science, National Chiao-tung University (NCTU), Taiwan (1994) BS, Computer and Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan (1993)
Research Interests:	I am interested in the recent development of the Chinese telecommunications in a broader context of the nation’s economic reforms starting from 1978. My current research centers on the impacts of reform policies on the telecommunications incumbents and their behaviors. With a focus on the nature of changes in the telecommunications state-owned enterprises (SOEs) during the reform period, I want to provide an account of the Chinese telecommunications reforms from the perspective of SOE reform in China. In addition to this on-going project, I am also interested in the role of economic policy as a cognitive tool in creating markets from once heavily state-driven economies, while at the same time trying to uncover whether policy as a set of cognitive interventions into economic activity plays a role in market outcomes. I had worked on a comparison of the mobile telecommunications industries of India and China. What I was trying to understand was how each of these industries had essentially been created from sets of assumptions and understandings about markets. In a broad sense, my research engages a wide range of issues including debates about the role of institutions, notably government and firms, in market creation, and assumptions about the so-called rational underpinnings of markets.
Academic Publications	“Ashby’s Notion of Memory and the Ontology of Technical Evolution.” [With Geoffrey Bowker] International Journal of General Systems, Vol. 38, no. 2 (2009) pp. 129-137. “1-Edge Fault Tolerant Design for Meshes.” [With L.H. Hsu] Parallel Processing Letters, Vol. 4, no. 4 (1994) 385-389.
Conference Papers:	“Rationality and Economic Policy.” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 13 October 2007 “From Economic Modeling to Economic Policy: A Constructivist View of Economic Rationality.” “Interactions: Artifacts and Us” Conference at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, US, 10 September 2007 “The Role of Experts in International Economic Collaborations: The First Decade of APEC.” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 3 November 2006 “Rethinking Agency and Institution in a Techno-Scientific Society: From ‘Big Brother’ to Little Brothers.” AAAS Graduate Student Conference, Washington, DC, US, 11 April 2005
Other Publications:	'"Spies" abound on the Net,' Taipei Times 03-18-2002. Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (Chinese translation) by Bob Woodward, April 2002, Leviathan Publishing Corp., Taipei. Co-authored An Introduction to E-commerce (in Chinese), January 2001, Leviathan Publishing Corp., Taipei. Co-authored The Illustrated E-commerce (in Chinese), January 2001, Leviathan Publishing Corp., Taipei. Articles in the Chinese business monthly Business Next.