Faculty

Our world class faculty is among the most international in the region. They consistently earn worldwide recognition for their research accomplishments. They are at the forefront of academic achievement, exploring breakthroughs to advance global business knowledge, leading international research agendas and publishing in the world’s top journals. Their cutting-edge research extends the frontiers of business knowledge and make significant and impactful contributions to the society.

They are passionate about teaching and have extensive experience in thesis supervision. Their insights and perspectives will inspire you to pursue quality and distinctive research.

Accounting

Prof Charles HSU
Prof Charles HSU Chair Professor
Department of Accounting

(PhD, Purdue University)

Research Interests:

  • Disclosure
  • Financial analysts
  • Managerial behavior
  • Earnings management
  • Corporate governance
Prof Allen HUANG
Prof Allen HUANG Head and Professor
Department of Accounting

Associate Director of Center for Business and Social Analytics

(PhD, Duke University)

Research Interests:

  • Capital markets
  • Earnings management
  • Earnings quality
  • Executive compensation
  • Financial analysts
Prof Tai-Yuan CHEN
Prof Tai-Yuan CHEN Professor
Department of Accounting

(PhD, The University of Texas at Dallas)

Research Interests:

  • Corporate governance
  • Disclosure
  • Executive compensation
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Prof Zhihong CHEN Associate Professor
Department of Accounting

(PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Research Interests:

  • Corporate governance
  • Disclosure
  • Executive compensation
  • Real effect of accounting
  • Capital markets
Prof Shiheng WANG
Prof Shiheng WANG Associate Professor
Department of Accounting

(PhD, Queen’s University)

Research Interests:

  • International accounting
  • Financial reporting
  • Contracting
  • Market efficiency
Prof Amy ZANG
Prof Amy ZANG Associate Professor
Department of Accounting

Co-director of Center for Securities Analysis with Financial Technology

(PhD, Duke University)

Research Interests:

  • Earnings management
  • Financial analysts
  • Regulation
  • Textual analysis
  • Litigation risk

Economics

Prof Woo Young LIM
Prof Woo Young LIM Head and Professor
Department of Economics

UG Programs Coordinator (Economics)

(PhD, University of Pittsburgh)

Research Interests:

  • Game theory
  • Experimental economics
  • Economic theory
  • Microeconomics
  • Political economy
Prof Yuk Fai FONG
Prof Yuk-Fai FONG Professor
Department of Economics

Associate Dean of Business and Management Professor

Academic Director of HKUST EMBA Program

Director of the HKUST Center for Economic Policy

(PhD, Boston University)

Research Interests:

  • Business Economics, 
  • Applied Game Theory
  • Incentive Strategies
Prof David COOK
Prof David COOK Professor
Department of Economics

(PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Research Interests:

  • Macroeconomics and Monetary economics
  • International macroeconomics
Prof Xinyu Hua
Prof Xinyu HUA Associate Professor
Department of Economics

Academic Director, Kellogg-HKUST Executive Master of Business Administration Program

(PhD, Northwestern University)

Research Interests:

  • Law and economics
  • Industrial organization / quantitative marketing
  • Contract theory
Prof Peng WANG
Prof Peng WANG Associate Professor
Department of Economics

Academic Director of MSc in Economics

(PhD, New York University)

Research Interests:

  • Applied econometrics
  • Econometrics
  • Empirical macroeconomics
  • Time series econometrics

Finance

Prof Dong LOU
Prof Dong LOU Head and Chair Professor
Department of Finance

Associate Dean of Business and Management (Strategic Planning and Research)

Citi Professor of Business

Director of Institute for Financial Research

Co-Director of HKUST-DXM AI for Finance Joint Laboratory

(PhD, Yale University)

Research Interests:

  • Asset pricing
  • Investment management
  • Behavioral finance
Prof Chu ZHANG
Prof Chu ZHANG Chair Professor
Department of Finance

Director of Center for Investing

(PhD, The University of Chicago)

Research Interests:

  • Asset pricing
  • Investments
  • Asian financial markets
  • Derivatives
Prof Utpal BHATTACHARYA
Prof Utpal BHATTACHARYA Chair Professor
Department of Finance

(PhD, Columbia University)

Research Interests:

  • Behavioral finance
  • Empirical corporate finance
  • Household finance
  • International financial markets
PROF VIDHAN GOYAL
PROF VIDHAN GOYAL Chair Professor
Department of Finance

(PhD, University of Pittsburgh)

Research Interests:

  • Capital structure
  • Corporate finance
  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate valuation
  • Empirical corporate finance
  • Asian financial markets
  • Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Prof. Yingying LI
Prof. Yingying LI Chair Professor
Department of Finance

(PhD, The University of Chicago)

Research Interest:

  • Financial econometrics 
  • Financial risk management high-frequency data
  • Volatility estimation and market microstructure
  • Statistical inference for stochastic processes
  • Asymptotic statistics
Prof Abhiroop MUKHERJEE
Prof Abhiroop MUKHERJEE Professor
Department of Finance

Associate Director of Institute for Financial Research

(PhD, Yale University)

Research Interests:

  • Asian financial markets
  • Behavioral decision making
  • Financial intermediation
  • Law and policy issues in financial economics
Prof. Yan JI
Prof. Yan JI Associate Professor
Department of Finance

Liwei Huang Associate Professor of Business

(PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Research Interest:

  • Asset Pricing and Its Connection to Industrial Organization
  • Marco Finance, Marco Development 
Prof. George PANAYOTOV
Prof. George PANAYOTOV Associate Professor
Department of Finance

(PhD, University of Maryland)

Research Interest:

  • Investments
  • Risk management
  • Asset pricing
  • Derivatives
  • Hedge funds
Prof. Winnie Peng
Prof Winnie Peng Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Finance

Director of Roger King Center for Asian Family Business and Family Office

Director of Thompson Center for Business Case Studies

(PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Prof. Jialin YU
Prof. Jialin YU Associate Professor
Department of Finance

Academic Director of HKUST-NYU Stern MSc in Global Finance

(PhD, Princeton University)

Research Interest: 

  • Investments
  • Behavioral finance
  • Market efficiency anomalies 
PROF ZHANHUI CHEN
PROF ZHANHUI CHEN Associate Professor
Department of Finance

(PhD, Texas A & M University & Tsinghua University)

Research Interests:

  • Asset pricing
  • Capital markets
  • Macrofinance
  • Investments
  • Market efficiency anomalies

Information Systems

Prof Kar Yan TAM
Prof Kar Yan TAM Chair Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

Vice-President for Administration & Business

Acting Director of HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Associate Director of Institute for Financial Research

(PhD, Purdue University)

Research Interests:

  • Fintech
  • Adoption of Information Technologies
  • Personalization and HCI
Prof Kai Lung HUI
Prof Kai-Lung HUI Acting Dean of Business and Management

Elman Family Professor of Business

Chair Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

Director of Center for Technology and Business Ecosystem

(PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Research Interests:

  • Cybercrime economics and policy
  • FinTech
  • Information technology policy
  • Information privacy
  • Electronic commerce
Prof James THONG
Prof James THONG Michael Jebsen Professor of Business

Acting Head and Chair Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, National University of Singapore)

Research Interests:

  • Technology adoption and implementation
  • Electronic government (e-government)
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Information privacy, security, and software piracy
  • IT development teams
Prof Yan XU
Prof Yan XU Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

Division of Public Policy

Associate Director of Center for Business Strategy and Innovation

(PhD, University of Strathclyde)

Research Interests:

  • Corporate management
  • Competitive strategy and regulatory policy of telecommunications
  • Technology and Innovation management and policy
Prof Yanzhen CHEN
Prof Yanzhen CHEN Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management (ISOM)

(PhD, The University of Texas at Austin)

Research Interests:

  • Big data
  • Algorithmic trading
  • Deep learning
  • Bayesian analysis
  • Healthcare
Prof Weiyin HONG
Prof Weiyin HONG Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Research Interests:

  • Human-computer interaction
  • FinTech
  • Online personalization and privacy concern
  • Technology adoption and disadoption
Prof Tat Koon KOH
Prof Tat Koon KOH Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

Associate Dean (Undergraduate Programs)

Program Director of Global Business Program

(PhD, Carnegie Mellon University)

Research Interests:

  • Digital economy
  • Digital marketing
  • Open innovation and Crowdsourcing
  • Platform design and strategy
  • Tech startups
Prof Jing WANG
Prof Jing WANG Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, New York University)

Research Interests:

  • Crowdsourcing
  • User-generated content
  • Crowdfunding
  • Data mining
  • Social networks
Prof Hong XU
Prof Hong XU Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

Co-Director of Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management

(PhD, The University of Texas at Austin)

Research Interests:

  • Strategic information communication
  • Auditing
  • Supply chain management
  • User-generated content
  • Online reputation
  • Game theory
Prof Yi YANG
Prof Yi YANG Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, Northwestern University)

Research Interests:

  • Machine learning
  • Natural language processing
  • Big data
  • Deep learning

Operations Management / Business Statistics

Prof Shaohui ZHENG
Prof Shaohui ZHENG Chair Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, Columbia University)

Research Interests:

  • Supply chain management
  • Interface of operations and marketing
  • Production and quality control
  • Queuing systems
Prof Albert HA
Prof Albert HA Wei Lun Foundation Professor of Business

Chair Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management
Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

(PhD, Stanford University)

Research Interests:

  • Stochastic models for production and inventory control
  • Incentive in operations
  • Supply chain management
Prof Ying Ju CHEN
Prof Ying Ju CHEN Crown Worldwide Professor of Business

Chair Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management
Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

(PhD, New York University)

Research Interests:

  • Socially responsible operations
  • Operations-marketing interface
  • Supply chain management
Prof Qing LI
Prof Qing LI Deputy Head and Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

Director of HKUST Li & Fung Supply Chain Institute

(PhD, The University of British Columbia)

Research Interests:

  • Intertemporal choice
  • Inventory management
  • Supply chain management
  • Behavioral operations management
  • Business Analytics
Prof. Mike K P SO
Prof. Mike K P SO Professor
Department of Information Systems,
Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, University of Hong Kong)

Research Interest:

  • Nonlinear time series analysis
  • Financial time series modeling
  • Market volatility study
  • Modeling the dynamic structure of economic data
  • Value at Risk estimation in financial markets
Prof Man YU
Prof Man YU Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, University of Michigan)

Research Interests:

  • Pricing and revenue management
  • OM/marketing interface
  • Operations analytics
Prof Hongtao ZHANG
Prof Hongtao ZHANG Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Research Interests:

  • Value of information and incentives for information exchange
  • Supply chain management
  • Coordination of global operations
  • Coordination in production and service systems
PROF XINGHUA ZHENG
PROF XINGHUA ZHENG Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, The University of Chicago)

Research Interests:

  • High-dimensional statistics, portfolio management
  • High-frequency financial data
  • Population models, random walk
Ki Ling CHEUNG
Prof Ki Ling CHEUNG Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, Stanford University)

Research Interests:

  • Total quality management
  • Supply chain management
  • Production and operations management
Prof Xuan Wang
Prof Xuan Wang Associate Professor
Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

(PhD, New York Unviersity)

Research Interests:

  • Supply chain management
  • Revenue management and Online Marketplaces
  • Operations / Manufacturing Flexibility Design and Analysis

Management

Prof Yaping GONG
Prof Yaping GONG Fung Term Professor of Management

Head and Chair Professor
Department of Management

(PhD, The Ohio State University)

Research Interests:

  • Employee creativity
  • Goal orientation
  • Strategic human resource management
  • International human resource management
  • HRM/OB issues in China
Prof Jiatao LI
Prof Jiatao LI Lee Quo Wei Professor of Business

Chair Professor
Department of Management

Director of Center for Business Strategy and Innovation

(PhD, The University of Texas at Dallas)

Research Interests:

  • Multinational Corporate Strategy
  • International Expansion and Performance
  • Corporate Governance in Asia
  • Alliances/Joint Venture Success in China
  • Global R&D and Innovation in China
  • Chinese Management and Organizations
Prof Ellick WONG
Prof Ellick WONG Professor
Department of Management

Academic Director of MSc in International Management

(PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Research Interests:

  • Managerial decision-making
  • Human judgment and decision processes
  • Language processing
  • Human attention
PROF MELODY CHAO
PROF MELODY CHAO Associate Professor
Department of Management

(PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Research Interests:

  • Globalization; Multicultural psychology
  • Organizational behavior; Normative judgements
  • Group processes and intergroup relations
Prof Bilian SULLIVAN
Prof Bilian SULLIVAN Associate Professor
Department of Management

Program Co-Director of BSc in Biotechnology and Business

(PhD, Stanford University)

Research Interests:

  • Behavioral theory of the firm, organizational learning and adaptation
  • Social networks
  • Organizational theories
  • Firm innovation
PROF YANFENG ZHENG
PROF YANFENG ZHENG Associate Professor
Department of Management

(PhD, University of Wisconsin Madison)

Research Interests:

  • Innovation System of China
  • Financial Technologies
  • Founding Team Dynamics
  • Venture Financing
Prof. Pavel ZHELYAZKOV
Prof. Pavel ZHELYAZKOV Associate Professor
Department of Management

Dr. Chung Sze-Yuen Associate Professor of Business

(PhD, Harvard University)

Research Interest:

  • Dynamics of inter-organizational tie formation and dissolution
  • Venture capital firm syndication and fundraising 
  • Strategic alliances 

Marketing

Prof Jiewen HONG
Prof Jiewen HONG Head and Professor
Department of Marketing

(PhD, Northwestern University)

Research Interests:

  • Consumer information processing
  • Affect and consumer judgment
  • Subjective experience in consumer judgment
Prof Mengze SHI
Prof Mengze SHI Academic Director of DBA Program

Chair Professor
Yuk-Shee Chan Professor of Business
Department of Markeing

(PhD, Carnegie Mellon University)

Research Interests:

  • Sales and marketing innovations
  • Incentives and motivation
  • Customer relationship management
Prof Ralf VAN DER LANS
Prof Ralf VAN DER LANS Chair Professor
Department of Marketing

Director of PhD/MPhil Programs

(PhD, Tilburg University)

Research Interests:

  • Bayesian data analysis
  • Eye movements
  • Pricing strategies
  • Visual attention
  • Online marketing
Prof Amy DALTON
Prof Amy DALTON Associate Professor
Department of Marketing

(PhD, Duke University)

Research Interests:

  • Nonconscious influences and automatic consumer behavior
  • Self-regulation
  • Identity
Prof Kristiaan HELSEN
Prof Kristiaan HELSEN Associate Professor
Department of Marketing

Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs
School of Business and Management

Senior Lecturer
Department of Marketing

Academic Director of MSc in Marketing

(PhD, University of Pennsylvania)

Research Interests:

  • Competitive marketing
  • Hazard rate modeling
  • International marketing
  • New products modeling
  • Product harm crises
  • Empirical modeling
PROF SONG LIN
PROF SONG LIN Associate Professor
Department of Marketing

(PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Research Interests:

  • Pricing
  • Advertising
  • New products
  • Platform designs
  • Information economics
Prof Jia LIU
Prof Jia LIU Associate Professor
Department of Marketing

Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

(PhD, Columbia University)

Prof Jaideep SENGUPTA
Prof Jaideep SENGUPTA Chair Professor
Department of Marketing

Synergis-Geoffrey YEH Professor of Business

(PhD, University of California)

Research Interests:

  • Consumer information processing
  • Persuasion and attitude strength
  • Effects of marketing communications
  • Self-regulation and self-control
Prof. June Zijun SHI
Prof June Zijun SHI

Associate Professor
Department of Marketing

(PhD, Carnegie Mellon University)

Prof Wenbo WANG
Prof Wenbo WANG Associate Professor
Department of Marketing

(PhD, New York University)

Research Interests:

  • AI generated content marketing
  • Precise targeting
  • Big data
  • Unstructured data
  • Moment to moment data
Prof Ying ZHAO
Prof Ying ZHAO Associate Professor
Department of Marketing

MPhil/PhD Programs Coordinator (Marketing)

(PhD, University of California, Berkeley)

Research Interests:

  • Competitive marketing strategy
  • Consumer choice dynamics
  • Media consumption and production behavior
PROF RONGRONG ZHOU
PROF RONGRONG ZHOU Associate Professor
Department of Marketing

(PhD, Columbia University)

Research Interests:

  • Consumer judgment and decision-making
  • Motivational influences in consumer behaviour
  • Customer experiences in services
  • The role of visual processing in decision-making