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🏫 HKUST · PhD Candidate, Information Systems
🏛 Wharton · Visiting Scholar (through Dec 2026)

Siyuan (Bruce) JIN (金思远) is a PhD candidate in Information Systems at HKUST Business School, advised by Prof. Kar Yan Tam, and a visiting scholar at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) with Prof. Lynn Wu through December 2026. He is on the 2026–2027 job market.

His research spans two streams: AI and IT workforce governance, and blockchain infrastructure and application governance. His methods include econometrics and experimental methods. His work appears in leading IS journals, including Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS, FT50) and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), and top conferences such as ICIS, CIST, and SCECR, with best-paper nominations at ICIS 2024 and 2025. He has contributed to several Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) white papers on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and quantum computing, and collaborated with industry partners including HSBC and other institutions.

His honors include the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (2024), a 2025 NSFC Young Student Basic Research Program Grant (RMB 300,000), and selection for the ICIS, CIST, and PACIS Doctoral Consortia (2026), among other awards. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for leading journals and conferences (Best Reviewer Award, ICIS 2025), runs the IS Reading Group (40+ online IS PhD seminars), and has taught as a guest lecturer at South China University of Technology and as a teaching assistant for undergraduate- and DBA-level courses at HKUST.

Before HKUST, he spent two years at HSBC as a full-stack engineer on blockchain projects in the HSBC Laboratory, reaching the finals of the 2021 Global CBDC Challenge (Monetary Authority of Singapore).

Research Focus

I work at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and FinTech, studying general-purpose technologies that lower a coordination cost and, in doing so, reopen a governance question. Making work cheaper to coordinate is not the same as making it accountable, and that gap is what my research measures.

AI and the Enterprise Workforce
How generative AI redistributes expertise, coordination, and visibility inside software organizations, and who gains when it does.
Job market paper on generative AI in distributed teams · Principal Investigator, NSFC grant
Blockchain Governance
How the design of decentralized platforms shapes participation, accountability, and where value accrues.
Journal of Management Information Systems · Two second-round revisions at Information Systems Research

Upcoming Talks 6 scheduled

Oct 30 2026
INFORMS CIST Doctoral Consortium consortium
Codified Expertise: How Generative AI Changes Temporal Coordination in Distributed Teams
San Francisco, USA
Nov 2 2026
INFORMS Annual Meeting invited
Codified Expertise: How Generative AI Changes Temporal Coordination in Distributed Teams
Applications of AI in Digital Economy
San Francisco, USA Mon 4:15 to 5:30 PM Moscone South-216 (Level 2)
Nov 5 2026
ISPOC Job Market Paper Presentation seminar
Codified Expertise: How Generative AI Changes Temporal Coordination in Distributed Teams
Online
Dec 2026
ICIS Doctoral Consortium consortium
Codified Expertise: How Generative AI Changes Temporal Coordination in Distributed Teams
Lisbon, Portugal December 9 to 12
Oct 2026
INFORMS CIST conference
Scaling Before Gains: AI Adoption and Team Expansion
San Francisco, USA Presented by Haochen Jiang (CityU) October 31 to November 1
Oct 2026
INFORMS CIST conference
Ambient Information and Selective Entry: Evidence from Mobile Widget Adoption
San Francisco, USA Presented by Haiting Lin (Zhejiang University) October 31 to November 1

Curriculum Vitae

Full record of my publications, working papers, conference presentations, teaching, and service.

Download CV (PDF) Last updated: August 2026

News

2026 8 highlights
Aug 2026
Paper
Paper on AI adoption and team expansion accepted at CIST 2026.
Aug 2026
Paper
Paper on ambient information and selective entry (mobile widgets) accepted at CIST 2026.
Jul 2026
Talk
Two papers accepted to the MISQ Virtual Paper Development Workshop.
2026
Paper
Papers accepted at Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS, FT50) and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS).
Jun 2026
Talk
Paper on AI adoption and time-zone frictions in global software teams selected for the HKUST IS Summer Workshop 2026.
May 2026
Talk
Papers accepted to the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2026 and CNAIS ISR Paper Development Workshop.
May 2026
Honor
Selected for the PACIS 2026 Doctoral Consortium.
Mar 2026
Lecture
Invited as a guest lecturer on blockchain at South China University of Technology.
Show earlier news (27 updates from 2025 and before)
2025 13 updates
Dec 2025
Service
Received the Best Reviewer Award at ICIS 2025.
Dec 2025
Grant
Awarded the NSFC Young Student Basic Research Program grant (PhD Student, 2026–2027, 300K RMB).
Dec 2025
Honor
Paper on seniority and AI-augmented code contributions nominated for the ICIS 2025 Best Paper Award.
Oct 2025
Paper
Paper on stablecoin transparency accepted at CIST 2025.
Jul 2025
Paper
Paper on Copilot's impact accepted at ICIS 2025.
Jun 2025
Talk
Paper on blockchain-based K-Pop community selected for the HKUST IS Summer Workshop 2025.
Jun 2025
Paper
Paper on consumer perception of rCBDC adoption accepted at ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice.
Apr 2025
Paper
Paper on code review accepted at SCECR 2025.
Apr 2025
Paper
Paper on stablecoin transparency accepted at SCECR 2025.
Apr 2025
Talk
Presented at the 2025 HKUST PhD Student Conference.
Mar 2025
Service
Selected as a mentor for the 2025 HKUST Web3 Ideathon Competition.
Mar 2025
Service
IS Reading Group reached over 100 members.
Feb 2025
Paper
Paper on root cause analysis accepted at AIOps 2025.
2024 11 updates
Dec 2024
Service
Selected to participate in the MISQ Reviewer Workshop.
Dec 2024
Award
Received the HKUST Young Scientists Program Award (FinTech).
Nov 2024
Honor
Paper on blockchain-based K-Pop community nominated for the ICIS 2024 Best Short Paper Award.
Nov 2024
Talk
Presented research on blockchain infrastructure governance at the 2024 Greater Bay Area Finance Workshop.
Aug 2024
Paper
Paper on blockchain-based K-Pop community accepted at CIST 2024.
Aug 2024
Paper
Paper on code review accepted at CIST 2024.
Jul 2024
Paper
Paper on blockchain-based K-Pop community accepted at the ICIS 2024 Fintech Track.
Jul 2024
Paper
Paper on stablecoin transparency accepted at ICIS 2024.
Jul 2024
Milestone
Successfully passed the PhD Qualification Exam and advanced to candidacy.
Jun 2024
Service
Paper accepted for the MIS Quarterly Virtual Paper Development Workshop.
May 2024
Talk
Presented at the HKUST PhD Student Conference.
2023 2 updates
Oct 2023
Paper
Joint policy paper "e-HKD Pilot Programme" published by the HKMA.
Sep 2023
Paper
Paper on software metrics distributions accepted at QRS 2023.
2022 1 update
Dec 2022
Service
Selected as a mentor for the 2022 HKUST Fintechstic Competition.
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