Dr. XU Jingjun David

David Xu is an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, healthcare, social media, technology adoption, and virtual reality. He has 45 publications, including 26 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 in Oct 2017, 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 2,300 and the h-index is 16. In 2023, 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 (or top-8) IS journals during the past 12 years (2011-2022). 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, and PhD and DBA seminars. In 2021, he received the College of Business Teaching Excellence Award. 

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

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• 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: "Leveraging AI Systems in Depression Treatment", General Research Fund (GRF) - Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong , (2023-2024) , David Xu, Aihua Yan, Lei Huang, Ron Cenfetelli
• co-PI: "Disclosure of Paid Advertisements in Search Results and User Response", National Natural Science Foundation of China-NSFC , (2021-2024) , Weiquan Wang, 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, Marius Claudy, Karl Aquino
• 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 , Amount: 100,000 (2020-2023) , David Xu
• PI: "The Effect of Reducing Product Uncertainties ", Strategic Research Grant - City University of Hong Kong , Amount: 100,000 (2019-2022) , David Xu
• PI: "Investigating the Differential Effects of Recommendations ", Strategic Research Grant - City University of Hong Kong , Amount: 100,000 (2018-2021) , David Xu
• PI: "The Effect of Visualization Designs and Augmented Reality", Start-up Grants - City University of Hong Kong , Amount: 300,000 (2018-2020) , David Xu

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