Research Interests

• GenAI in Finance
• Adoption of Information Technologies
• Personalization and HCI

Academic qualification

• PhD Purdue University, Management Information Systems
• M.S. Purdue University, Computer Science 
• B.S. University of Illinois, Mathematics and Computer Science 

Academic And Professional Experience 

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• Vice-President for Administration & Business, 2024 - present
• Dean, School of Business and Management, 2016 - 2024
• Associate Provost and Founding Dean of Students, 2011 - 2016
• Founding Dean of Undergraduate Education, 2007 - 2011
• Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, 2005 - 2007

HKUST Business School

• Associate Dean, 1999 - 2006
• Chair Professor of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

University of Texas, Austin

• Assistant Professor, 1987 - 1992

Recent Publications

• Duan, H, Yang, Y, Tam, K. Y., "Reading Between the Lines: A Text-based Deep Learning Approach for Understanding Company Dynamics," to appear in MIS Quarterly.
• Jin, S. Y, Huang, A., Li, Z. T., and Tam, K. Y., "From Mining to Meaning: How Decentralized IT Infrastructures Respond to Environmental Sustainability,” to appear in Journal of Management Information Systems.
• Ng, K. C., Ke, Ping Fan, So, K.P., and Tam, K.Y., “Market Reactions to Deceptive Language in Fake News: Implications from Language Expectancy Theory and Transfer Learning,” to appear in ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems.
• Hanyu Duan, Yang, Y., Ahmed Abbasi and Tam. K.Y., "Robust Predictive Modeling under Unseen Data Distribution Shifts: A Methodological Commentary," to appear in Information Systems Research.
• Jin, S. Y., Tam, K. Y., Zeng, B., Q. Shao, Y. H., Y. Xia, B. “From Hype to Strategy: Using Extensional Representation Encoding to Assess Quantum Computing’s Business Value,” to appear in ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems
• Feng, Y., Yu, N.Y., Tam. K.Y., Lai, M., “Effective Intervention in User Adaptation: A 2x2 Coping Framework Entailing Implementation and Contextual Factors,” Journal of Association of Information Systems, 25, 4, 2024, 962-989
• Zheng, J., Ng, K.C., Zheng, R., and Tam. K.Y., “The Effects of Sentiment Evolution in Financial Texts: A Word Embedding Approach,” Journal of Management Information Systems, 41, 1, 2024, 178-205.
• Ng, K.C., Ke, Ping Fan, So, K.P., and Tam, K.Y., “Augmenting Fake Content by Opinion-based Linguistic Features: A Domain Adapative Transfer Learning Approach,” Production and Operations Management, 32, 7, 2023, 2101-2122.
• Feng, Y., Claggett, J., Karahanna, E., and Tam, K.Y., “A Randomized Field Experiment to Explore the Impact of Herding Cues as Catalysts for Adoption,” MIS Quarterly, 46, 2, 2022, 1135-1164.
• Li, G., So, Mike K.P., and Tam, K.Y., “Identifying the Big Shots – Addressing the Deflated P-Value Problem in Big Data Research,” ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 13, 2, 2022.
• Ng, K.C., Thong, Y.L., Zhang, X., and Tam. K.Y., “Protecting against Threats to Computer Security: An Attitudinal Ambivalence Perspective,” Journal of Management Information Systems, 38, 3, 2021, 732-764.
• Ng, K.C., So, K.P., and Tam, K.Y., “A Latent Space Modeling Approach to Interfirm Relationship Analysis,” ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 12, 2, 2021, article 10, 1-44.
• Tam, K.Y., Feng, Y., and Lai, C.L., “Effective Use of Policing System: A Two-Stage Study over the Shakedown Period of System Implementation”, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, September 2019, 1-16.
• Tam, K.Y., Feng Y., and Kwan, S., “The Role of Morality in Digital Piracy: Understanding the Deterrent and Motivational Effects of Moral Reasoning in Different Piracy Contexts,” Journal of Association of Information Systems, 20, 5, 2019, 604-628.

Public Services

• Chairman, Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation
• Member, Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority
• Member, Board of EFMD
• Member, THEi Board of Governors
• Member, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Review Tribunal of the HKSAR
• Member, Hong Kong Academy of Finance
• Member, Policy Research Committee, Financial Services Development Council

Consultations And Executive Education

Consultant, IBM China/Hong Kong; Merrill Lynch(Asia Pacific); Hongkong Telecom; Tele Danmark; Hong Kong Industrial Technology Centre Corporation; Open University of Hong Kong; HSBC; Sun Microsystems; Symantec, PCCW eBusiness Solutions, and OFTA.