Prof. XU Jingjun David

PhD - Management Information Systems (University of British Columbia)
MPhil - Information Systems (City University of Hong Kong)
BBA - Business Administration (Lingnan University, First-class honours)

Professor

Prof. XU Jingjun David

Contact Information

Address: 6-275, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building
City University of Hong Kong
Phone: +852 34428530
Fax: +852 34420369
E-mail:
davidxu@cityu.edu.hk

Research Areas

  • Human-computer interaction
  • Recommendation systems
  • Social media
  • E-commerce
  • Technology adoption
  • Artificial Intelligence

David Xu is a professor in the Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, healthcare, social media, technology adoption, and virtual reality. He has over 60 publications including 30+ journal papers. His publications have appeared in all top four information systems journals (i.e., MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Association for Information Systems) as well as the interdisciplinary UTD journals such as Management Science and INFORMS Journal on Computing. Before joining City U, he was the associate professor of MIS and Bomhoff Endowed Professor of Business at Wichita State University.

He earned his PhD from Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia in 2011. His Google Scholar citation count is over 2,700 and the h-index is 18. In 2024, the Association for Information Systems (AIS) ranked him the joint 5th worldwide (first-author count ranking) among the most productive information systems scholars for publishing in the top-4 IS (ranked joint 7th in the top-8) journals during the past 13 years (2011-2023). He was the recipient of the AIS Early Career Award in 2018 and was named AIS Distinguished Member - Cum Laude in 2020.

He teaches courses in Python programming, data visualization, human-computer interaction & multimedia, website design, and research methods across programs of undergraduate, taught postgraduate, PhD, and DBA. In 2021, he received the College of Business Teaching Excellence Award. In 2024, he received the recognition of outstanding teaching performance (top 5% of teachers) from the Office of the Provost and Deputy President.

He is serving as a senior editor for Information Systems Journal (ABS List 4) and associate editor for Information Systems Research (ISR), a UTD Journal. He won the Best Associate Editor Award in ICIS 2020 and ISR Best Associate Editor Award in Oct 2021.

Faculty Positions

Period Department - Institution Position
2017 - 6/2023 City University of Hong Kong Associate Professor
2017 Wichita State University Bomhoff Endowed Professor of Business
2016 - 2017 Wichita State University Associate Professor
2011 - 2016 Wichita State University Assistant Professor

Awards

Award Title Institution
Outstanding Teaching Performance (5% of teachers) City University of Hong Kong (Office of the Provost and Deputy President)
HICSS Best Paper Award Nominee (2024) Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
ICIS Best Paper Award Nominee (2023) International Conference on Information Systems
Excellent Paper Award (2022) The 2nd JEBDE’s Academic Conference on Electronic Business & Digital Economics
College Teaching Excellence Award (2021) City University of Hong Kong (College of Business)
Associate Editor of the Year Award (2021) Information Systems Research
ICIS Best Paper Award Nominee (2021) International Conference on Information Systems
Best Associate Editor Award (2020) International Conference on Information Systems
AIS Distinguished Member – Cum Laude Association for Information Systems (AIS)
AIS Early Career Award (2018) Association for Information Systems (AIS)
Faculty Risk-Taker Award (2017) Wichita State University
Researcher/Writer of the year (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017) Wichita State University (Barton School of Business)
Young Faculty Scholar Award (2015) Wichita State University

Teaching Areas

  • Research Paradigms and Theories for Applied Business Research (DBA)
  • Survey and Experimental Research Methods for Business (PhD)
  • Data Visualization (MSc)
  • Human-Computer Interaction (MSc)
  • Python programming for business (BBA)
  • Website design for e-commerce (BBA)

Research Grant

  • PI: "Information cocoon mitigation in short video sharing platforms", National Natural Science Foundation of China-NSFC , (2023-2026) , David Xu and others
  • PI: "Effects of Using AI Beauty Filters", Strategic Research Grant - City University of Hong Kong , (2023-2025) , David Xu and others
  • PI: "Leveraging AI Systems in Depression Treatment", General Research Fund (GRF) - Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong , (2023-2024) , David Xu and others
  • PI: "Artificial Intelligence-Led Recruitment System", General Research Fund (GRF) - Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong , (2022-2023) , David Xu and others
  • PI: "Research on Disease Prevention and Health Management", Consultancy Grant - Chengdu Active Health Technology Co., Ltd , (2021-2023) , David Xu and others
  • PI: "Reactions to an Artificial Intelligence Enabled System", Strategic Research Grant - City University of Hong Kong , (2020-2023) , David Xu
  • PI: "The Effect of Visualization Designs and Augmented Reality", Start-up Grants - City University of Hong Kong , (2018-2020) , David Xu

Supervisory Experience

Period Nature
2021 DBA Thesis - (Chinese) since 2022
2021 DBA Thesis - CityU-Fudan since 2021
2020 DBA Thesis - (English) since 2020
2017 PhD Thesis - since 2017

Administrative Assignments

Period Name Position
6/2018 - Now BBA Information Management (IFMG) Programme Leader
2/2018 - Now Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems (BDIS) Programme Leader

External Academic Activities

Period Organizer Country / Region Role
2023 - Now Information Systems Journal - Senior Editor
2023 - Now Association for Information Systems (AIS) - AIS Mid-Career Award Committee
2020 - Now Information Systems Research - Associate Editor
2018 - 2023 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University China (Hong Kong) External Examiner (DBA and PhD Thesis)
2014 - 2023 International Conference on Information Systems - Associate Editor
2022 The University of Hong Kong China External Examiner (PhD Thesis)
2022 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Canada Grant Reviewer
2018 - 2022 Information Systems Journal - Associate Editor
2021 Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences Kuwait Grant Reviewer
2018 - 2020 Hong Kong Baptist University China External Examiner (DBA)
2016 - 2018 Information Systems Journal (Special Issue - Making the developing world a better place with high‐impact IS research) - Guest Associate Editor

External Links

Selected Publications

Journal Publications and Reviews
Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works
Faculty's Theses