Bio

Dr. Daning Hu is an Associate Professor (with Tenure) at the Business School of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. 

Prior to joining SUSTech, Daning was an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He has also taught at Management or Computer Science schools in the University of Arizona, Zhejiang University, and CityU HK.

Daning's current research focuses on Blockchain Technology and Ecosystem, AI agents, Fintech, and Open innovation. His work has appeared in MISQ, Research Policy, JAIS, and IEEE/ACM Transactions, among others.

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Research Interests

  • FinTech and AI
  • Blockchain Technology and Ecosystem
  • Open Source and Digital Innovation

Academic Degrees

  • PhD, Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, 2009
  • BSc, Computer Science, Zhejiang University, 2004

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor (with Tenure), Southern University of Science and Technology
  • Assistant Professor, University of Zurich

Funding

  • PI, P2P Systemic Risk Mining in Light of Platform Heterogeneity; National Natural Science Foundation of China; 2020 - 2023
  • PI, Machine Learning-driven Financial Systemic Risk Minging; Guangdong Province Focus Area Project；2020 - 2022
  • PI, Big Data-driven Systemic Risk Mining for Financial Markets; Shenzhen "Peacock Plan" Research Grant；2019 - 2024
  • PI, Startup Research Grant; Southern University of Science and Technology；2018 - 2021
  • Co-PI, SSSTC Ric on Big Data Research; Swiss National Science Foudation (SNF) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); 2015 - 2017
  • Co-PI, Bank-NAST: Managing Systemic Risks in Banking Systems; Forschungskredit of Universität Zürich；2013 - 2014
  • PI, BankNet: A Network Approach for Managing Bank Systemic Risk; ZUNIV & Ecoscientia Foundation；2012 - 2014

Honors and Awards

  • Shenzhen Peacock Talent Plan Award, 2019
  • Nominee for the CIONET European Research Paper, 2013
  • ZUNIV Fonds zur Förderung des Akademischen Nachwuchses, 2012
  • Eller College Dean's Teaching Award, University of Arizona, 2008
  • ICIS Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2008

Publications

Recent Publications and Papers Under Review (2022–Present)
Blockchain Technology and Web 3.0 Ecosystem
  1. From Voice to Fork: The Escalation of Community Resistance in a Governance Crisis in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Management Studies.
  2. Tao, C., Hu, J., Li, P., Chau, M., Hu, D. (2026). Impact of Copyright Sharing on the Success of Non-Fungible Token Collections. Information & Management, 63(1).
  3. Dong, S., Hu, D., Chau, M., & Ma, C. (2025). Are Tokens Sufficient to Solve Collective Action Problems in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations? HICSS 2025.
  4. Ma, C., Zhou, Z., Wang, X., Liu, K., Yan, J., Hu, D., & Liu, X. (2024). Who Is More Influenced by Earnings? Player Behaviors in Axie Infinity. ICA 2024.
  5. Zhang, T., Ren, H., Ma, C., Liang, S., Hu, D., & Liu, X. (2023). Unlocking Decentralized Lending Protocols: Semantic Unification and Risk Spillover Assessment. IEEE ICDMW 2023.
  6. Xu, W., Hu, D., Lang, K. R., & Zhao, J. L. (2022). Blockchain and Digital Finance. Financial Innovation.
  7. Ma, C., Pu, J., Liu, X., & Hu, D. (2022). Adaptive Innovation Diffusion: Two-way Spillover Effect of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Diffusion. ICA 2022.
AI and Fintech
  1. Hu, J., Ma, C., & Chau, M. Impacts of Open Source Software Activities on the Success of Decentralized Applications. Research Policy, FT50 Special Issue.
  2. Wan, S., Gao, D., Gu, H., Hu, D., & Yang, Q. Quantifying and Defending against Privacy Risk in Logit-based Federated Learning. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, under review.
  3. Shang, Y., Hu, J., Tao, C., Yang, X., & Hu, D. The Impact of Crisis Events on Peer-to-Peer Lending Platforms. JASIST, under review.
  4. Nguyen, H. H., Hu, J., Hu, D., & Chau, M. (2025). Navigating Conflicting Sentiment: How News and User-generated Content Shape Investment Decision Making. PACIS 2025.
  5. Liang, S., Ma, C., Ren, H., Hu, J., Yang, X., Wang, Y., Hu, D., & Zhang, T. (2024). Emotion and Financial Behavior on Decentralized Social Platforms. IIKI 2024.
  6. Wan, S., Gao, D., Gu, H., & Hu, D. (2023). FedPDD: A Privacy-preserving Double Distillation Framework for Cross-silo Federated Recommendation. IJCNN 2023.
  7. Mao, Q., Wan, S., Hu, D., Yan, J., Hu, J., & Yang, X. (2023). Leveraging Federated Learning for Unsecured Loan Risk Assessment on DeFi Lending Platforms. IEEE ICDMW 2023.
  8. Ren, H., Ma, C., Wang, Z., & Hu, D. (2022). Hi-Geo-Ti: A Visual Analytic Design for Pedestrian Trajectories Using Hierarchical Geographical Timelines. Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics, 34(9).
  9. Wang, L., Zhang, T. Z., Chen, Y., Huang, Y., Yin, X., Liu, X. F., & Hu, D. (2022). Machine Learning-based Start-up Company Lifespan Prediction: The Chinese Market as an Example. IEEE UV 2022.
Open Source Innovation
  1. Gaining Popularity Through Online Peer-to-Peer Sponsorship: Evidence from an Open Source Software Community. Major Revision at MIS Quarterly.
  2. Hu, J., Hu, D., Yang, X., Dong, S., & Gao, H. (2024). Gaining Popularity through Sponsorship in the Open-Source Software Community. PACIS 2024.
  3. Hu, J., Hu, D., Yang, X., & Chau, M. (2023). The Impacts of Lockdown on Open Source Software Contributions during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Research Policy, 52(10).
  4. Hu, J., Hu, D., Yang, X., & Chau, M. (2022). The Impacts of Lockdown on Open Source Software Contributions during the COVID-19 Outbreak. HICSS 2022.
  5. Hu, J., Hu, D., Yang, X., & Chau, M. (2023). Can Firms Improve Performance through External Contributions to Their Open-source Software Projects? ECIS 2023.
  6. The Impact of External Contributions to Firm-Sponsored Open Source Software Projects on Firm Market Value. EJIS, under review.
Other Journal Publications
  1. Dong, S., Hu, D., Yang, X., & Chau, M. (2024). Analyzing the impacts of cultural backgrounds on migrants’ acculturation strategies in mobile phone social networks. Cities, 154.
  2. Yang, X., Li, X., Hu, D., & Wang, H. J. (2021). Differential impacts of social influence on initial and sustained participation in open source software projects. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(9).
  3. Cheng, H. K., Hu, D., Puschmann, T., & Zhao, J. L. (2021). The landscape of Blockchain research: Impacts and opportunities. Information Systems and e-Business Management.
  4. Zhang, Z., et al. (2018). Collective behavior learning by differentiating personal preference from peer influence. Knowledge-Based Systems, 159, 233–243.
  5. Chen, J., et al. (2017). Forecasting smog-related health hazard based on social media and physical sensor. Information Systems, 64, 281–291.
  6. Deng, S., Wu, H., Hu, D., & Zhao, J. L. (2016). Service selection for composition with QoS correlations. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 9(2).
  7. Deng, S., Huang, L., Hu, D., Zhao, J. L., & Wu, Z. (2016). Mobility-enabled service selection for composite services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 9(3).
  8. Yan, J., Hu, D., Liao, S., & Wang, H. (2015). Mining agents’ goals in agent-oriented business processes. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 5(4).
  9. Hu, D., Schwabe, G., & Li, X. (2015). Systemic risk management and investment analysis with financial network analytics. Financial Innovation, 1(1).
  10. Vogel, D., Zhou, H., & Hu, D. (2015). Special issue on computation, business, and health science. Big Data Research, 2(1).
  11. Hu, D., Yan, J., Zhao, J. L., & Hua, Z. (2014). Ontology-based scenario modeling and analysis for bank stress testing. Decision Support Systems, 63.
  12. Zhao, J. L., Fan, S., & Hu, D. (2014). Business challenges and research directions of management analytics in the big data era. Journal of Management Analytics, 1(3), 169–174.
  13. Hu, D., Zhao, J. L., Hua, Z., & Wong, M. (2012). Network-based modeling and analysis of systemic risk in banking systems. MIS Quarterly, 36(4).
  14. Hu, D., Zhao, J. L., & Chen, J. (2012). Reputation management in an open source developer social network. Decision Support Systems, 53(3).
  15. Chen, J., Sun, A., Hu, D., & Zeng, D. (2011). An information diffusion based recommendation framework for micro-blogging. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 12(7).
  16. Hu, D., Zhao, X., & Zhao, J. L. (2011). Strategic choices of inter-organizational information systems. Information Systems Frontiers, 13(5).
  17. Hu, D., Kaza, S., & Chen, H. (2009). Identifying significant facilitators of dark network evolution. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(4), 655–665.
  18. Xu, J., Hu, D., & Chen, H. (2009). The dynamics of terrorist networks. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 6(1).
  19. Li, X., et al. (2009). Nano Mapper: An internet knowledge mapping system for nanotechnology development. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 11(3), 529–552.
  20. Hu, D., Chen, H., Huang, Z., & Roco, M. (2007). Longitudinal study on patent citations to academic research articles in nanotechnology (1976–2004). Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 9(4).
Other Conference Publications
  1. Dong, S., Hu, D., & Chau, M. (2023). Perceived social norms, token rewards, and cooperation in decentralized autonomous organizations. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2023).
  2. Hu, J., Hu, D., Yang, X., & Chau, M. (2023). Can firms improve performance through external contributions to their open source software projects? European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2023).
  3. Wan, S., et al. (2023). FedPDD: A privacy-preserving double distillation framework for cross-silo federated recommendation. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2023).
  4. Mao, Q., Wan, S., Hu, D., & Yan, J. (2023). Leveraging federated learning for unsecured loan risk assessment on DeFi lending platforms. CNAIS 2023.
  5. Tao, C., et al. (2023). The impact of copyright sharing on non-fungible tokens’ success. China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2023).
  6. Shang, Y., et al. (2023). The impact of online word-of-mouth and default news on trading volumes in P2P lending platforms. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-57).
  7. Ren, H., Wang, Z., Wang, Z., Chen, L., Satoh, S., & Hu, D. (2020). An interactive design for visualizable person re-identification. ACM Multimedia 2020, 4536–4538.
  8. Cui, X., Yang, X., Liu, L., Cun, X., & Hu, D. (2018). The role of social media usage in enhancing team members’ trust and team creativity. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2018).
  9. Li, X., et al. (2017). Understanding the impacts of social influence on initial and sustained participation in open source software projects. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017).
  10. Hu, D., Li, X., & Zhang, M. X. (2016). The impacts of geographic dispersion on OSS project success. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016).
  11. Hu, D., Yan, J., Algesheimer, R., & Meierer, M. (2016). Understanding moderators of peer influence for engineering viral marketing. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016).
  12. Yan, J., Hu, D., & Shi, Y. (2015). Systemic risk in P2P lending systems: An ontological exploration. Workshop on Business Processes and Services (BPS 2015).
  13. Ciriello, R., Hu, D., & Schwabe, G. (2013). Identifying patterns of idea diffusion in innovator networks. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013).
  14. Yang, X., Hu, D., & Davison, R. (2013). How microblogging networks affect project success of OSS development. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2013).
  15. Yan, J., Hu, D., & Zhao, J. L. (2013). An ontology-based approach for bank stress testing. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2013).
  16. Hu, D., et al. (2013). Identifying hidden community elites in online social networks. China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2013).
  17. Hu, D., Zhao, J. L., & Hua, Z. (2010). Ranking systemic risk in bank networks. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2010).
  18. Hu, D., & Zhao, J. L. (2009). Discovering determinants of project participation in an open source social network. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2009).
  19. Hu, D., & Zhao, J. L. (2008). Expert recommendation via semantic social networks. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2008).
  20. Hu, D., et al. (2007). Towards a process-driven intelligent forum system. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2007).
  21. Kaza, S., Hu, D., & Chen, H. (2007). Dynamic social network analysis of a dark network. IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2007).
  22. Qin, J., et al. (2005). Analyzing terrorist networks: A case study of the global salafi jihad network. IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2005).

Teaching

Southern University of Science and Technology

  • Big Data Analytics (~50 students), Spring 2019–2025
  • Introduction to FinTech; Blockchain Technology and Applications; Social Network Analysis, Fall 2018–2025

University of Zurich

  • IT Project Management (~120 students), Spring 2016–2017
  • Business Network Analytics and Applications (~40 students), Fall 2015–2017

City University of Hong Kong

  • Database Management Systems (~50 students), Spring 2010, 2011
  • Management and Business Intelligence Systems (~80 students), Fall 2010

University of Arizona

  • MIS304: Using and Managing Information Systems (~50 students), Summer 2007

Professional Services

  • Chair / Co-Chair / Program Co-Chair / Track Co-Chair
    • Industrial Co-Chair, International Conference on Smart Finance, 2018
    • Chair, SSSTC Sino-Swiss Workshop on Big Data Research (SSBDR), 2016–2017
    • Co-Chair, Workshop on Web Data Science Meets Smart Cities (WDS4SC), associated with WWW 2015
    • Program Co-Chair, Workshop on Internet and Big Data Finance (WIBF), 2014–2015
    • Track Co-Chair, China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), 2012–2013
    • Track Co-Chair, Financial Intelligence and Applications Track, Workshop on Business Process Services (BPS), 2012–2015
    • Track Co-Chair, Technical and Managerial Issues in Innovative Software Development Track, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2011
  • Editorial Board Member / Special Issue Co-Editor / Track Associate Editor
    • Editorial Board Member, Financial Innovation
    • Special Issue Co-Editor, Big Data Research (Special Issue on Computation, Business, and Health Science)
    • Track Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2014–2015
    • Track Associate Editor, European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2014
    • Track Associate Editor, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), 2016
  • Program Committee Member
    • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2014–2015
    • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2014
    • International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), 2014
    • China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), 2012–2017
    • Workshop on Business Processes and Services (BPS), 2012–2015
    • Business Information Systems Workshops (BIS), 2014
    • Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB), 2014–2017
    • IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2015–2017

Contact

Email
  • hdaning AT gmail DOT com
Address
  • Department of Finance, Hui Garden 3-3
    Southern University of Science and Technology
    Xue Yuan Street 1088
    Nanshan, Shenzhen 518055
    Guangdong, China