Dr Hailiang Chen wins the Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award 2022-23

Dr Hailiang Chen wins the Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award 2022-23

Congratulations to Dr Hailing Chen, Associate Professor in Innovation and Information Management, for winning the Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award 2022-23.

The Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award aims to honour and reward faculty members for having done excellent research and achieved international recognition in the field of business and economics. The recognition of Dr Hailing Chen’s advancement was evidenced by having five articles published in “A” journals over the past five years, including Information Systems Research; Journal of Financial Economics; Journal of Management Information Systems and Management Science.

 

About Dr Hailiang Chen

Dr Hailiang Chen is a prolific young scholar consistently publishes outstanding research outputs. His research is interdisciplinary and primarily focuses on social media and FINTech. His work has appeared in both Information Systems and Finance top tier journals including Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science.

Dr Hailiang Chen is highly motivated to raise his own research standard through bidding external grants with novel research ideas. He has four projects awarded for the General Research Fund with a total amount of over HK$2.8M since he joined HKU in early 2019. In addition, he is active in serving the academic community, and his research excellence has received international recognition. He served as associate editor of a few special issues of Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly and JMIS covering emerging topics of FinTech and AI. As a rising star in the Information Systems area, Dr Hailiang Chen has gained considerable visibility in the Information Systems area. The Association for Information System presented him the AIS Early Career Award in 2019 to recognise his remarkable research achievements as a young scholar. 

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