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Zhepeng (Lionel) Li

Associate Professor in IIM, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong

Editorial Board

  1. Associate Editor, MIS Quarterly, 2026 -
  2. Guest Associate Editor, MIS Quarterly, Special Issue on “Ethics, Regulation, and Policy: The Challenge to Institutions in the Digital Age.”, 2026 - 2027
  3. Guest Associate Editor, Information Systems Research, Special Issue on “Information Technology for Disaster Management”, 2021 - 2023
  4. Associate Editor, Service Science (INFORMS Journal on), 2021 - 2023
  5. Associate Editor, Information Technology and Management, 2020 - Present
  6. Guest Associate Editor, Computational Economics, 2016

Organizing Committee

  1. Conference Co-Chair, Summer Workshop on AI for Business (SWAIB), 2026
  2. Vice President, College on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), INFORMS, 2025 - present
  3. Secretary, College on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), INFORMS, 2023 - 2024
  4. Program Co-Chair, Summer Workshop on AI for Business (SWAIB), 2025
  5. Conference Co-Chair, AI Cluster, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2021 - 2024
  6. Program Co-Chair, Winter Conference on Business Analytics, 2020
  7. Program Co-Chair, INFORMS Data Science Workshop, 2019

Advisory Committee

  1. Co-supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU, 2025

    • Dr. Dongjun Wei
    • Thesis Title: “Improving Trustworthiness on Digital Platforms Through Natural Language Processing”

  2. Member, Ph.D. Thesis Examining Committee, Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU, 2024

    • Dr. Yixuan Li
    • Title: “Purchase Decisions and Business Strategies of Different Stakeholders on Virtual Gifts in Social Live Streaming Services (SLSSs)”

  3. Member, Ph.D. Thesis Examining Committee, Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU, 2023

    • Dr. Feiyu E
    • Title: “Text Mining on Social Media for Diaster Management”
    • Placement: Post-doc at R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

  4. Advisor, Guided study in machine learning & startup on HR analytics, Schulich School of Business, York University, 2018 - 2020

    • Mr. Ali Shayeb, Nugget.AI, 2019 -

  5. Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Computer Science, York University, 2016.

    • Dr. Morteza Zihayat-Kermani
    • Title: “Mining High Utility Patterns over Data Stream”, nominee for dissertation award
    • Placement: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in IT Management, Business School, Ryerson University, Toronto, CA.

  6. Co-supervisor, Post-doc Fellow, 2015 - 2019

    • Dr. Wanghong Li

  7. Evaluator, Master of Business Analytics (MBAN), Major Research Paper and Presentation, 2015- 2019

Academic Development/Service

  1. Admission Committee, Master of AI in Business (MAIB), The University of Hong Kong, 2026 - 2028
  2. Curriculumn Development Committee, Master of AI in Business (MAIB), The University of Hong Kong, 2026 - 2028
  3. Program Proposal Task Force, Master of AI in Business (MAIB), The University of Hong Kong, 2024 - 2025
  4. Admission Committee, Master of Business Analytics (MSBA), The University of Hong Kong, 2021 -
  5. Program Proposal Task Force, Master of Management in AI (MMAI), Schulich School of Business, York University, 2018
  6. Committee Member, Graduate Students Admission, Schulich School of Business, York University, 2015 - 2020
  7. Search Committee, Canadian Tier-1 Research Chair in Big Data, 2015
  8. Committee Member, Undergraduate Program, Schulich School of Business, 2014