Center for Digital Transformation
The Center for Digital Transformation at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, initiated and led by Professor Sun Tianshu, aims to integrate tech with business, theory with practice. It collaborates with enterprises, industries, and the government to find a uniquely Chinese path for industrial digitalization, covering tech strategy, business design, talent, standards, and policies.
The center focuses on two aspects: 1) new tech and big data, like data science, AI, cloud computing, IoT, etc.; 2) matching business designs and industrial policies.
It seeks to combine a global tech view with Chinese - specific industry features, building a co - creation platform for advanced discussions, top - level planning, and tech implementation. The center regularly holds academic and industry events, and supports cross - disciplinary research, education, sharing, and cooperation.
Center Member
Caohong Cheng (Babu)
Senior Consultant
Digital Transformation
Former CTO of DingTalk & Yonyou
Onsite
Zhao Jin
Assistant Professor
Artificial Intelligence
Finance & Innovation
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Onsite
Danqing Mei
Assistant Professor
Artificial Intelligence
Finance & Innovation
Ph.D., Columbia University
Onsite
Hongshen Sun
Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence
Quantitative Marketing
B.S., Tsinghua University; M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management, MIT
Zhenyue Zhao
Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence
Complex Networks
B.S. & M.S., Nanjing University
Department of Information Science,Cornell University
Xincheng Ma
Research Assistant
Digital Marketing
Digital Transformation
B.S., Beihang University; M.S.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
HKUST Business School
Jin Zhang
Research Assistant
Digital Transformation
Big Data Architecture
B.S., Beijing Institute of Technology
Onsite
Yinfeng Jiang
Research Assistant
Digital Operations
Digital Marketing
B.S., CSU; M.S., University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
HKUST Business School
Shuyi Dong
Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Transformation
B.S., Wuhan University; M.S., Nanjing University
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Sipeng Zeng
Research Assistant
Digital Operations
Digital Marketing
B.S., SUSTech; Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Onsite
Qi qi
Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Transformation
B.S., Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Onsite
Chun Feng
Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence
Labor Markets
Human–AI Collaboration
B.A., South China University of Technology / M.S., Xi’an Jiaotong University
Onsite
Weizhang Zhu
Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Transformation
Human–AI Collaboration
B.A., Peking University / M.S., The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Onsite
Zhixin Li
Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Transformation
Open-Source Communities
B.A., North China Electric Power University / M.S., Ghent University
Onsite
Can Hu
Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Transformation
Lean Startup
B.A., Hunan University / M.S., Hunan University
Onsite
Tonglu Yuan
Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Economy
Science of Science
B.A., Nanjing University
Onsite
Haoyun Long
Research Assistant
Artificial Intelligence
Quantitative Marketing
Information Systems
B.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Onsite
Academic Collaborators
Prof. J. Frank Li
University of Southern California
Dr. WANG Jin
StanFORD DIGITAL ECONOMY LAB
Prof. Wen Wang
University of Maryland
Prof. Brian Rongqing Han
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Yan LENG
University of TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Students Supervised
(Doctoral/Master's/Undergraduate supervisor + Member of the thesis defense committee)
Prof. Brian Rongqing Han
 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Zhikun Lu
New York University, Shanghai
Prof. Wilson Lin
Santa Clara University
Mengxia Zhang
Western University
Prof. Heeseung Andrew Lee
The University of Texas at Dallas
Prof. Wensi Zhang
The University of Texas at Dallas
James Enouen
The University of Southern California
Wenxuan Zhou
Zoom
Peifeng Wang
Salesforce
Guangyu Li
Meta
Tian Xie
Meta
Chaofan Zhai
Meta
Xing Lan
Celestis
Prof. Jisu Cao
University of Connecticut
Mingxuan Yue
Google