Keynote Speakers
Professor Bin Gu is Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Professor and Department Chair of Information Systems at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. Professor Gu’s research interests are in using information technologies to address information asymmetry in business and society. His work has appeared in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, among others.
Professor Gu serves or has served as a senior editor for Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly and as a conference co-chair, track chair, or associate editor for major IS conferences, including International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), INFORMS Conference on Information Systems Technology (CIST), Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), and ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM EC).
Professor Gu’s research has received best paper awards from Information Systems Research, Journal of Retailing, Emerald Publishing, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMICS), INFORMS e-Business Section, the China Information Economics Society, and faculty research awards from Boston University and Arizona State University.
Professor Gu obtained his PhD and MA degrees from the Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania and his BEng degrees in International Business and Computer Science from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Before joining Boston University, Professor Gu was the Gladys Davis Distinguished Professor and associate dean of China Programs at the W P Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He also served on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. Before coming to academia, Professor Gu worked for Arthur Andersen as a consultant.
Professor He is a financial economist whose expertise covers financial markets, financial institutions, and macroeconomics broadly. He is also conducting academic research on Chinese financial markets, and writing academic articles on new progress in the area of cryptocurrency and blockchains.
His research has been published in leading academic journals in finance and economics. After serving as associate editors for several leading academic journals, He served as the guest editor of the Review of Finance “Special Issue on China” and currently serves as the editor of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies.
Professor He received his bachelor and master degrees from the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University before receiving his PhD from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2008. He has been named a 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, and has won numerous awards for his outstanding scholastic record, including the Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance, the Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award, the Smith-Breeden First Prize, and the Brattle Group First Prize. Before joining the Chicago Booth faculty in 2008, he worked as a stock analyst at the China International Capital Corporation in Beijing in 2001 and visited the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University as a post-doctoral fellow.
In Autumn 2015 Professor He was the Dean’s distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, and in winter 2020 he is a visiting professor of finance at Yale University, School of Management. In January 2020, he testified at U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) Hearing on “China’s Quest for Capital: Motivations, Methods, and Implications.”
Dr. Fan Wang is a Professor of School of Business who received a Distinguished Young Scholars Fund by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He graduated from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University for Bachelor to PhD. In 2002, he became a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Lab (Beijing). In 2003, through the Admission Scheme for Mainland Talents by the Hong Kong SAR Government, he became a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He joined School of Business, Sun Yat-sen University as a Professor since 2006. He has served as Chair of the Department of Management Science (2006-2008), Deputy Dean of School of Business (2008-2016), and Dean of School of Business since 2016. He also held the position of Director of the Office of Human Resources from June 2018 to February 2020. He then was appointed as Assistant President of Sun Yat-sen University in January 2020.
Professor Fan Wang won Asian Champion as contestant at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 1998, First Prize of University Teaching Achievement Award by Beijing Municipal Government in 2002, and IBM Faculty Award in 2008. He was selected into the New Century Excellent Talent Program by the Ministry of Education in 2010. He won Second Prize of University Teaching Achievement Award by the Ministry of Education in 2019.
Professor Fan Wang serves as executive council members of both the Chinese Academy of Management and the Society of Management Science and Engineering of China. He is also board member of AACSB, member of AACSB accreditation committee, and member of EQUIS accreditation committee.
His research areas include Fintech, Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Finance.
D. J. Wu is the Ernest Scheller Jr. Chair in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization, Professor of IT Management, and Area Coordinator in IT Management at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. He graduated from the Computer Science and Technology Department of Tsinghua University and received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Wu’s current research interests include economics of digital innovation and transformation, digital business model innovations, platform ecosystems, enterprise information technology, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. Dr. Wu’s recent work has been published in academic journals, including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and MIS Quarterly.
Prof. Wu serves as a Department Editor of Information Systems, Management Science. He also serves as a Co-Editor for the Management Science Special Issue on Human-Algorithm Connection. In addition, he has served as a Senior Editor for Information Systems Research (2018 -2020) and as President of INFORMS Information Systems Society (2019-2021).
WEI XIONG is Trumbull-Adams Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University. His research interests center on capital market imperfections, behavioral finance, digital economy, and China’s financial system. He has received various awards, including 2018 China Economics Prize, 2014 Inaugural Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award, 2013 NASDAQ OMX Award by Western Finance Association, and 2012 Smith Breeden Award (first prize) by American Finance Association. He received his Ph.D. in finance from Duke University in 2001, M.A. in physics from Columbia University in 1995, and B.S. in physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1993. He is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Co-Editor of Journal of Finance (the flagship journal of American Finance Association), as well as Academic Dean of School of Management and Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.