Siyuan (Bruce) JIN (金思远) is a PhD candidate in Information Systems at HKUST Business School, advised by Prof. Kar Yan Tam. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, working with Prof. Lynn Wu until December 2026.
His research interests center on 1) blockchain infrastructure and application governance and 2) AI use in enterprise IT management. His methods include data analytics, econometrics, and experimental methods. His papers have been accepted by top IS conferences, including ICIS, CIST, and SCECR. His papers are nominated as best paper of ICIS 2024 and ICIS 2025. He has contributed to policy papers for the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and HKET (經濟日報), and has industrial collaboration with HSBC, NetEase, Shanbei, and other companies.
He received the China National Scholarship (2020), Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPFS) (2024), and Young Scientists Program Award (2025). He was also awarded the 2025 NSFC Young Student Basic Research Program Grant (300,000 RMB). Through the IS Reading Group, he has organized 40+ online IS PhD student seminars.
Before HKUST, he worked for two years at HSBC as a trainee and full-stack engineer, focusing on blockchain projects in IT Architecture and the HSBC Laboratory. He received the 2021 Top Performer and Role Model awards, and was a finalist in the 2021 Global CBDC Challenge organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for leading journals and conferences, and received the Best Reviewer Award at ICIS 2025. In teaching, he was a guest lecturer on blockchain at South China University of Technology and has served as a teaching assistant for multiple courses at HKUST, including undergraduate-level, and DBA-level courses.