Teaching
Students learn the whole task in smaller pieces.
I design backward from a clear final performance. Students practice each useful part, receive feedback, and put the parts together.
Teaching approachPan Liu
Scholar · educator · media maker
Communication
and Judgment
Pan Liu studies how communication becomes judgment.
country ≠ culturestatistical arrow ≠ causal arrowreaction ≠ agreementsystem success ≠ individual competence
Research
One program. Three kinds of judgment.
My recurring move is simple: pause when two different things are being treated as equivalent, then test whether the inference holds.
evidenceclaim
Knowledge judgment
I study how evidence becomes a defensible claim. This includes causal inference, research methods, reproducibility, scholarly review, and the values that shape what institutions authorize as knowledge.
Interactive project
Mock Auction Practice
A bilingual simulator for live bid-calling, price increments, bidder switching, pacing, and hammer-down sequences.
Open the simulator
Multimedia teacher-scholar
Research, teaching, and making belong together.
Before becoming a professor, I worked in reporting, broadcasting, photography, documentary production, and podcasting. That practice still shapes how I teach communication and build public-facing work.