IS Ph.D. Student Position Available for Fall 2022 香港科技大学 [2021.12.19]

Position

One Ph.D. student position, starting in Fall 2022

Employer

Professor Zhitao Yin, Assistant Professor, HKUST Business School

Location

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong (The Ph.D. student is expected to reside in Hong Kong)

Description

The Ph.D. student will join a research team working on high-impact business and societal problem domains including economics of digital innovation and entrepreneurship, human-AI interaction, digital technologies in financial market, and others.
The student will participate in research projects, which combine rigor and relevance in formulating and solving problems, generate papers to top academic journals, and engage with policy and managerial practice.

The Ph.D. student will receive mentoring and training on conducting high-impact research by working closely with Professor Zhitao Yin and other team members:

• Professor Arun Rai
• Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly (2016-2020)
• Permanent Regents' Professor and Howard S. Starks Distinguished Chair Professor at J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
• Professor Sean Xin Xu
• Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly (2016-2021)
• Associate Dean and Professor at School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

The Ph.D. student will also:

1. Develop the knowledge and skills to formulate innovative research ideas in the problem domains
2. Learn cutting-edge data science approaches including econometrics, experimentation, machine learning, text mining, and network analysis
3. Conduct research in collaboration with the team or independently
4. Engage with academics and practice through presentations and teaching

Requirements

• Motivated to develop as a scholar to generate innovative insights through entrepreneurial research activities and engagement with both academics and practitioners
• Interested in and familiar with news/knowledge in technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, economics, and/or business strategy
• Strong foundations in mathematics, statistics, and econometrics
• Experience in data collection, data cleaning, exploratory analysis, and causal analysis
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, R, Stata, and/or SAS
• Comfortable with English working environment with strong verbal and written skills
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Economics, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Math, and other related areas

Financial Support

• Competitive stipend awarded in the form of postgraduate studentship during the normative study period
• Strong support for professional development
• Opportunities to apply for additional stipends such as Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship, HKUST RedBird Ph.D. Scholarship

Application Procedure and Timeline

• Please send your CV and personal statement to Professor Zhitao Yin (zhitaoyin@ust.hk).
• Selected candidates will be invited to provide additional supporting documents.
• Zoom interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

About HKUST Business School and Information Systems group

• Established in 1991, the HKUST Business School is ranked among the Top Business Schools in the world for publications in the leading business journals.
• The Information Systems group (with 16 tenure-track faculty) is ranked #9 in the world for publications in the top 2 information systems journals (Information Systems Research and Management Information Systems Quarterly) for 2015-2020.

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