
Research Areas
Qualifications
Biography
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 80 publications including 40 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), interdisciplinary UTD journals such as Management Science and INFORMS Journal on Computing, as well as various IEEE journals. 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 3,000 and the h-index is 20. He was the recipient of the AIS Early Career Award in 2018 and was named AIS Distinguished Member - Cum Laude in 2020. 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.
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.
Faculty Positions
Period | Department - Institution | Position |
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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 |
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AMCIS Best Paper Award Nominee (2024) | The Americas' Conference on Information Systems |
CSWIM Best Paper Award (Runner-up) | China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2024) |
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 Grants
Supervisory Experience
Period | Nature |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |