Biography

John Qi Dong is an associate professor (with tenure) at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. He serves as an associate editor for Information Systems Research and previously was an associate editor for MIS Quarterly, which named him "Outstanding Associate Editor". He is also an award-winning senior editor for Journal of the Association for Information Systems as the "Senior Editor of the Best Paper". His research interests are focused on AI strategy, digital transformation, digital innovation, and business value of IT. He has published in premier scholarly journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Marketing, and Strategic Management Journal, as well as leading practical journals such as MIS Quarterly Executive. His publications have received more than 8500 citations according to Google Scholar, and Stanford University named him in the world's top 2% scientists (ranked no. 136 in 18561 information systems scholars). He received a PhD in information systems from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and worked as a tenured faculty at Trinity College Dublin and University of Groningen.

He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Senior Editor Award of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems Best Paper in 2025, the Best Paper Award in Track and the Best Paper Award of Strategic Management SIG at European Academy of Management Conference in 2025, the Best Paper Award in Track at Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems in 2024, the Association for Information Systems Mid-Career Award in 2023, the MIS Quarterly Outstanding Associate Editor Award in 2022, the Professorial Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin in 2022, the Research Excellence Award from Trinity College Dublin in 2021, the Best Short Paper Award (finalist) at International Conference on Information Systems in 2021, the Association for Information Systems Early Career Award in 2020, the Best Paper Award (finalist) at Strategic Management Society Special Conference in 2018, the Outstanding Junior Researcher Award from University of Groningen in 2017, the Best Paper Award of OCIS Division (1st runner-up) at Academy of Management Annual Meeting in 2015, and the Dean's PhD Fellowship for Research Excellence from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013.