People

Current Major Roles

• Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics (HKU Business School), The University of Hong Kong
• Deputy Head, Innovation and Information Management Area
• Associate Director, HKU HKJC Center for Suicide Research and Prevention
• Member, HKU Senate
• Member, HKU Court
• Member, Business Studies Panel (General Research Fund and Other Funding Schemes for Individual Research), HK Research Grants Council
• Member, Business Studies Panel (Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector), HK Research Grants Council


• Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Information Management (IJIM) (Impact Factor 2025: 27.0, ABDC A*)
• Senior Editor, MIS Quarterly (UTD, FT50, ABDC A*)
• Conference Co-Chair, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2027)
• Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2025)

Past Major Roles

• Warden, Lee Chi Hung Hall (2009-2021)
• BBA(IS) Program Director/Coordinator (2006-2009, 2012-2018)
• Program Co-Chair, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2024)
• Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013)
• Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2019)
• Founding Co-Chair, Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2006-2019)

Recognition and Awards

• Ranked as the 14th top author worldwide (1st in Asia) in research productivity in the discipline of information science in the period 1998-2007 out of 1,823 distinct researchers (Chua, A. & Yang, C. C., 2008, JASIST)
• Ranked as the 11th most productive researcher worldwide in the field of business intelligence and analytics in the period 2000-2011 (Chen, H. et al., 2012, MISQ)
• Stanford University's List of the Top 2% scientists
• INFORMS ISS Design Science Award 2020
• IEEE ITSS Leadership Award in Intelligence and Security Informatics 2020
• AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award 2016
• Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2014, The University of Hong Kong
• Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2013 & 2016, The University of Hong Kong
• Faculty Research Postgraduate Supervision Award 2020, The University of Hong Kong
• Journal on Information Systems Education Best Paper Runner-up 2019
• IEEE ISI Best Conference Paper Runner-up 2016
• PACIS Best Conference Paper 2006
• Papers cited over 8,000 times with an H-index of 45 (Google Scholar)
• Media interviews and coverage of research (CNN, New York Times, ATV, Ming Pao, Apple Daily, HKET, HKEJ, SCMP, Oriental Daily, Sun Daily, PC Market)