Currently I'm a researcher in machine learning with the Pingla Institute, Australia and Fiji and associated with NEDMIL I did my PhD at the University of Queensland in Australia, Masters level studies at the University of Konstanz in Germany specilaizing in Econometrics and writing a thesis in Public Finance and undergraduate in Business at the University of Augsburg, I did my Bachelors' degree at Griffith University in Australia. I previously taught at China Agricultural University, Beijing; Excelia Business School. La Rochelle, France; University of Alberta,, Edmonton, Canada; University of Fiji, Saweni, Fiji, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia , Australia, and worked as researcher at the University of Glasgow, University of East Anglia and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.
Research interests
Applied Economic theory
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Machine learning
Educational credentials
PhD Agricultural Economics
Diplom-Volkswirt (Econometrics and Public Finance)
B.A. (Mandarin Chinese and Economics)
Professional affiliations
Econometric Society
INFORMS
IIFET
ISDG
Canadian Economic Association
Journal Articles
Xuechun Wang, Rodney Beard, Rohitash Chandra (2025) Evaluation of Google Translate for Mandarin Chinese translation using sentiment and semantic analysis, Natural Language Processing Journal, Volume 13, December, 100188 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlp.2025.100188 (Scopus listed no quartile).
T. Wang, R. Beard, J. Hawkins and R. Chandra, Recursive Deep Learning Framework for Forecasting the Decadal World Economic Outlook, in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 152921-152944, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ ACCESS.2024.3472859 (Scopus listed Q1).
Ngo, G., Beard, R., & Chandra, R. (2022). Evolutionary bagging for ensemble learning. Neurocomputing, 510, 1-14. (Scopus listed Q1).
Mohr, S., Beard, R., Nisbet, A. J., Burgess, S. T., Reeve, R., Denwood, M., . . . & Matthews, L. (2020). Up- take of diagnostic tests by livestock farmers: a stochastic game theory approach. Frontiers in veterinary science, 7, 36. (Scopus listed Q1).
Beard, R. (2015), N-firm oligopoly with general iso-elastic demand. Bulletin of Economic Research, 67: 336 - 345. doi: 10.1111/boer.12009 (Scopus Q3 listed).
Ng, E., Yanes, L, Tang, K. K. and Beard, R. (2005) The hierarchical structure of a firm: a geometric approach, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 12 no. 13 pp. 1-7 (Scopus Q3 listed).
Beard, R. and Tang, K. K. (2004) Comparing Income Distributions between Economies that Reward Innovation and Those that Reward Knowledge, The ICFAI Journal of Public Finance, 2004, II, (2), 77-88.
Beard, R. and Wegener, M. (2001) Industry Structure and the Reform of the Queensland Sugar Industry: A Computational Model, Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 31, No. 2, September (Scopus Q1 listed).
Beard, R. (1991) Neuere theoretische Ansätze zur chinesischen Landwirtschaftsreform (Some new the- oretical approaches to China’s agricultural reforms), Chinablätter, No. 18, pp. 316-329.
Book chapters
Measuring the impact of AI on Energy and Sustainability: A guide for managers (forthcoming book chapter in Anshuman Khare (Ed.) AI-Powered Sustainability: Strategies for Modern Business. Routledge, 2026).
Kerandel J-A., Bell J., Abas M., Gillespie M., Beard R., Gehrke P. et al. (2025) Chapter 7. Implications of climate change for livelihoods and economies based on fisheries and aquaculture in the Pacific Islands region. p. 483–525. In: Johnson J.E., Wabnitz C.C.C. (Eds). Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture in the Pacific Islands region. Noumea, New Caledonia, Pacific Community (SPC). 626 pp.
Limmer, A. and Beard, R. The Role of Digitalization and COVID-19 for Internationalization in Higher Education, in: A. Sharma et al. (Eds.) BRI and Internationalization of Higher Education, Bloomsbury, 2023.
Beard, R. (2018). Implementation of a Next-Generation Course Architecture for Blended Learning. In: Khare, A., Hurst, D. (eds) On the Line. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62776-2 13 (Scopus listed).
Beard, R. and McDonald, S. Time-consistent fair water sharing agreements, in: Jørgensen, Steffen; Vincent, Thomas; Quincampoix, Marc (Eds.) Advances in Dynamic Game Theory and Applications, Series: Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games, Vol. 9, 2007 (Scopus listed).
T.J. Venn, Beard, R. and S.R. Harrison Modelling Stand Yield of Timber Species under Sparse Data, in: S. Harrison and J. Herbohn, (Eds.) Socio-Economic Evaluation of the Potential for Australian Tree Species in the Philippines, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2000.