Research Interests

• AI-enabled Decision Making
• AI + Education
• Human-GenAI Collaboration
• Design Science + Field Experiment

Academic Qualification

• Ph.D. 2026 University of Minnesota
• M.S. 2020 University of Southern California 
• B.S. 2017 Shanghai University of Finance & Economics

Academic And Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2026 - present

Honors & Awards

• Carlson Scholar, 2026 (for graduating students who earn a grade point average of 3.85 or higher in their coursework)
• Selected Fellow for INFORMS ISS Doctoral Consortium, 2025
• WITS Best Dissertation Award "Three Essays on Overcoming Cognitive Frictions in Online Education", 2024
• Selected Fellow for ICIS Doctoral Consortium 2024
• Carlson School of Management Dissertation Fellowship ($32,000), 2024 
• Google Cloud Research Grant, 2024 
• Dean’s Small Grant for Research, Carlson School of Management ($10,000), 2023
• Teaching Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Student Instructor, Carlson School of Management, 2023
• Ph.D. Student Conference/Travel Fellowship, 2020-2024
• Carlson and Willoughby IDS Ph.D. Fellowship, 2020-2024 
• Ph.D. Student Summer Research Fellowship, 2020-2024