Bio

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Zhengrui Jiang is a Shenzhen Finance Institute (SFI) Chair Professor and Professor of Information Systems in the School of Management and Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Before joining CUHK-Shenzhen, he was the Thome Professor in Business and Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics in the Ivy College of Business, Iowa State University and a Distinguished Professor in the Nanjing University Business School. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Jiang had more than six years’ industry experience in China and the U.S., encompassing international trade, management, and software development.

Dr. Jiang's received his PhD degree in Management Science (with concentration in Information Systems) from the University of Texas at Dallas. His primary research interests include business intelligence and analytics, optimization/decision-making under uncertainty, diffusion of technological innovations, and economics of information technology. His research has appeared in leading academic journals including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Production and Operations Management, INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Journal of Management Information Systems, and in conferences such as ICIS, WITS, CIST, and INFORMS.

Dr. Jiang currently serves as a senior editor for Information Systems Research. He previously served as an associate editor for both MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research and received Outstanding Associate Editor Awards from the two journals in 2016 and 2021, respectively. In addition, he is currently a senior editor for Production and Operations Management and Decision Support Systems. He co-chaired The 13th Annual Big XII+ MIS Research Symposium (2015), The 9th Annual Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference (2014), and The 28th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2018). 

Besides academia, Dr. Jiang has collaborated extensively with industry partners. He has done analytics work for multiple internationally known companies in America, Europe, and China, and provided them solutions to improve the efficiency of operations.