Education

• College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, 2021～2024

  Ph.D. from the Department of Information Systems

  Advisors: Prof. Alvin Leung, Prof. Fang Yulin

• School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2019～2024

  Ph.D in Management from the Department of Management Science and Engineering

  Advisor: Prof. Qiang Ye

• School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology

  B.S. in Management, Electronic Commerce, 2014～2018

  Minor Degree in Finance, Computational Finance, 2018～2020

• School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology

  M.E., Electrical Engineering, Ranking:1/186, 2017～2019

  B.E., Electrical Engineering, Postgraduate recommendation, 2013～2017

• Hebei Hengshui High School, 2010～2013

Work Experience

• Non-Tenured Associate Professor, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China (May 2024 till now)
• Research Assistant, HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong (Sep 2023 to May 2024, Cooperative Professor: Fang Yulin)
• Research Assistant, Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong (Sep 2022 to Aug 2023, Cooperative Professor: Leung Chung Man Alvin)

Research Interest

• Topics: GenAI and Blockchain applications, Social Media, Quantitative Trading
• Methods: Econometrics, Causal Inference, Experiment, Design Science

• Fang Mengyuan, Fang Yulin, Gao Chaoyue, Leung Chung Man Alvin, Ye Qiang (listed alphabetically). The Impact of "Lazy Minting" on Seller Performance in NFT Marketplaces—A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective. Journal of Operations Management (UTD-24), Published online. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/joom.1368
• Gao Chaoyue, Gu Bin, Leung Chung Man Alvin, Liu Xianwei, and Ye Qiang. The Risk of Cryptocurrency Payment Adoption and the Role of Social Media: Evidence From Online Travel Agencies. Production and Operations Management (UTD-24), Published online. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10591478241231860
• 叶强, 高超越, 姜广鑫. 大数据环境下我国未来区块链碳市场体系设计[J]. 管理世界, 2022, 38(01): 229–249. （Top 1 Best Management Journal in China. This paper is selected as the top 10 best papers in 2022 of this journal）
• Yuan, Lin, Chaoyue Gao, Alvin Chung Man Leung, and Qiang Ye. Enhanced digital embeddedness and bubble mitigation in NFT marketplaces: The impact of rarity rank on user trading behavior. Decision Support Systems, 2025 Mar, 190: 114407. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167923625000089

• Fang Mengyuan, Gao Chaoyue, Sia Choon Ling, Leung Chung Man Alvin, Ye Qiang. The Double-Edged Sword of Delegation: Exploring the Effects of Delegation on Voting Behaviors in DAO. Major revision at MIS Quarterly (UTD-24).
• Zhan Yuhong, Gao Chaoyue, Leung Chung Man Alvin, Ye Qiang. Who is leading the market? Predictive ability comparison and information flow between different stock habitats. Under 3rd review at Decision Support Systems.
• Yuan Lin, Chan Funyi, Gao Chaoyue, Leung Chung Man Alvin, Gu Bin, Ye Qiang. AI-Generated Summaries as Differentiating Reference: Impact on User Content Generation in Online Communities. Under review.
• Ye Xingchen, Guo Dezhen, Gao Chaoyue, Huang Ni, Hong Yili. Navigating Exclusivity and Free Offerings: How Digital Paywalls Influence Content Creators’ Behavior. Under review.

• ChatGPT empowered product recommendation and user content generation: Evidence from Online Travel Agency, with Chan Funyi, Leung Chung Man Alvin, Ye Qiang, Fang Yulin
• Virtue of Inconsistency: Where to Seek Alpha in Seeking Alpha? with Li Zhihao, Chan Funyi, Leung Chung Man Alvin
• Design AI-Generated Summaries for Online Video Platforms: Evidence from a Field Experiment. With Ji Ying, Wan Xiang Shawn, LI Zhuoxin Allen
• How Do AI-Generated Summaries Affect Review Contributions? Evidence from a Restaurant Review Platform. With Ji Ying, Wan Xiang Shawn, LI Zhuoxin Allen
• Privacy Protection Policy and Human Resource Cost in the GenAI Era: Evidence from LinkedIn. With Chen Lei, Leung Chung Man Alvin, Ye Qiang

• Fang Mengyuan, Yu Jiatian, Gao Chaoyue, and Leung Chung Man Alvin. Conformity or Contrarian? The Impact of Delegation on User Voting Behavior in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations[C]. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2024.
• Chan Funyi, Gao Chaoyue, Leung Chung Man Alvin, Fang Yulin and Ye Qiang. ChatGPT-empowered Product Recommendation and Online Word-of-Mouth: Evidence from Online Travel Agency[C]. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2024.
• Liang Weizhong, Wang Longji, Chen Lei, Gao Chaoyue and Leung Chung Man Alvin. Developing a Source Authenticity System to Combat Fake News: An NFT-Based Approach[C]. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2024.
• Ji Yin, Gao Chaoyue and Ye Qiang. Motivated Endeavor in Catching Attention: The Impact of Conversion Tool on Sponsored Post Engagement[C]. The 24th International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB 2024).
• Li Zhihao, Chan Funyi, Gao Chaoyue and Ye Qiang. Will Sentiment Extraction based on ChatGPT yield Better Predictive Outcomes? Evidence from an Online Travel Agency[C]. The 24th International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB 2024).
• Yuan Lin, Gao Chaoyue, Leung Chung Man Alvin, and Ye Qiang. The Impact of Rarity Awareness on User Trading Behavior Evidence from NFT Marketplaces[C]. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), 2023. Best Short Paper Nominee
• Gao Chaoyue, Gu Bin, Liu Xianwei, and Ye Qiang. The Risk of Cryptocurrency Payment Adoption[C]. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2022.
• Gao Chaoyue and Leung Chung Man Alvin. True or False Prosperity? The Effect of Token Incentives in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations[C]. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2022.
• Jin Yu, Ye Qiang, Gao Chaoyue, and Xia Hao. The Value of Amateur Analysts' Recommendations Extracted from Online Investment Communities[C]. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), 2019.

Workshop Presentations

• A Multimodal LLMs-based Stock Return Prediction Framework with Comovement Relationship Mining.* The 18th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM). Xi’an, China. (June 28-29, 2025).
• Automated Mining of A-Share Alpha Factors Based on Large Language Model Multi-Agent Architecture.* The 18th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM). Xi’an, China. (June 28-29, 2025).
• Design AI-Generated Summaries for Online Video Platforms: Evidence from a Field Experiment.* The 18th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM). Xi’an, China. (June 28-29, 2025).
• Beyond Text: Examining the Effect of Human AI Interaction in Image-Embedded AI-Generated Summaries of Online Reviews.* The 18th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM). Xi’an, China. (June 28-29, 2025).
• Virtue of Inconsistency: Where to Seek Alpha in Seeking Alpha?.* The 21st Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR). Paphos, Cyprus. (June 22-24, 2025).
• Designing AI-Generated Summaries for Online Video Platforms: Evidence from a Field Experiment. The 21st Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR). Paphos, Cyprus. (June 22-24, 2025).
• The Rise of AI Summaries in Financial Markets: Implications for Human Analysts and Investor Engagement.* The 21st Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR). Paphos, Cyprus. (June 22-24, 2025).
• Threat or Catalyst: How AI-induced Oversupply Reshapes the Users Minting Behavior in the NFT Marketplace?.* CityU IS Summer Research Workshop. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (June 9-10, 2025)
• Virtue of Inconsistency: Where to Seek Alpha in Seeking Alpha?.* CityU IS Summer Research Workshop. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (June 9-10, 2025)
• AI-Generated Summaries as Differentiating Reference: Impact on User Content Generation in Online Communities.* CityU IS Summer Research Workshop. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (June 9-10, 2025)
• Who Is Leading the Market? Predictive Ability Comparison and Information Flow between Different Stock Habitats.* The 34th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2024). Bangkok, Thailand. (December 18-20, 2024).
• Conformity or Contrarian? The Impact of Delegation on User Voting Behavior in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.* Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2024). Seattle, Washington. (October 19 - 20, 2024).
• Who is leading the market? Predictive ability comparison and information flow between different stock habitats. Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2024). Seattle, Washington. (October 19 - 20, 2024).
• ChatGPT-Empowered Product Recommendation and Online Word-of-Mouth: Evidence from Online Travel Agency. 2nd Annual Business & Generative AI Workshop. Wharton San Francisco. (September 5-6, 2024).
• Who is leading the market? Predictive ability comparison and information flow between different stock habitats.* The 9th International Conference on Smart Finance (ICSF 2024). Hefei, China. (July 27-28, 2024).
• ChatGPT-Empowered Product Recommendation and Online Word-of-Mouth: Evidence from Online Travel Agency. China Association for Information Systems - University of Nottingham Ningbo China Paper Development Workshop 2024. Ningbo, China. (July 11, 2024).
• ChatGPT-empowered product recommendation and online Word-of-Mouth: Evidence from Online Travel Agency.* ISR development workshop 2024. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (2 July, 2024)
• The Impact of “Lazy Minting” on Seller Performance in NFT Marketplaces—A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective.* PACIS 2024 Doctoral Consortium Program. RMIT Campus, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (July 1-2, 2024)
• Who Is Leading the Market? Predictive Ability Comparison and Information Flow between Different Stock Habitats.* The 17th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM). Xiamen, China. (June 29-30, 2024).
• Developing a Source Authenticity System to Combat Fake News: An NFT Based Approach.* The 17th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM). Xiamen, China. (June 29-30, 2024).
• ChatGPT-empowered product recommendation and online Word-of-Mouth: Evidence from Online Travel Agency.* POMS China conference 2024. Hefei, China. (June 28-30, 2024).
• Herding or Contrarian? The Impact of Delegation on User Voting Behavior in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.* 2024 POMS International Conference in China. HeFei, China. (June 28-30, 2024)
• Conformity or Contrarian? The Impact of Delegation on User Voting Behavior in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.* MIS Quarterly Virtual Author Development Workshop. Online. (June 9, 2024)
• Conformity or Contrarian? The Impact of Delegation on User Voting Behavior in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.* CityU IS Summer Research Workshop. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (June 26-27, 2024)
• ChatGPT-empowered product recommendation and online Word-of-Mouth: Evidence from Online Travel Agency. CityU IS Summer Research Workshop. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (June 26-27, 2024)
• 基于区块链技术的电力数据资产安全共享研究. CSIAM区块链技术与应用高峰论坛. 吉林长春. 2024年6月21-23日.
• ChatGPT-empowered product recommendation and online Word-of-Mouth: Evidence from Online Travel Agency.* MISQ virtual workshop. (June 8, 2024).
• ChatGPT-empowered product recommendation and online Word-of-Mouth: Evidence from Online Travel Agency.* POMS conference 2024. Minnesota, USA. (April 25-29, 2024).
• ChatGPT empowerment and user content generation: Evidence from Online Travel Agency.* 2024年平台管理研讨会. Fudan University, Shanghai, China. (January 27, 2024).
• Lemon or Peach: What Will Sellers Mint under Free Minting Policies in NFT Marketplaces?, Doctoral Consortium, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Honolulu, Hawaii. (Jan 2-6, 2024).
• Whispers of Change: How ChatGPT Adoption Influences Customer Engagement.* The 33rd Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS). Hyderabad, India. (December 13-15, 2023).
• Lemon or Peach: What Will Sellers Mint under Free Minting Policies in NFT Marketplaces?* The 33rd Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS). Hyderabad, India. (December 13-15, 2023).
• True or False Prosperity? The Effect of Token Incentives in NFT Marketplaces, Doctoral Consortium, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Hyderabad, India. (Dec 10-13, 2023).
• Whispers of Change: How ChatGPT Adoption Influences Customer Engagement. Digital Platform & Entrepreneurship Workshop. HKU Business School Shenzhen Campus, Shenzhen, China. (Dec 1-2, 2023).
• Whispers of Change: How ChatGPT Adoption Influences Customer Engagement. 16th CityU PhD Student Workshop. Hefei, China. (Nov 3-4, 2023).
• Navigating the Risky Waters of Cryptocurrency Payment: The Role of Social Media in Mitigating the Impact of Controversial Technology Adoption. Web3.0 Academic Conference on Operations and Information Management. Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, China. (September 09-10, 2023).
• Lemon or Peach: What Will Sellers Mint under Free Minting Policies in NFT Marketplaces? Web3.0 Academic Conference on Operations and Information Management. Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, China. (September 09-10, 2023).
• True or False Prosperity? The Effect of Token Incentives in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Web3.0 Academic Conference on Operations and Information Management. Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, China. (September 09-10, 2023).
• Lemon or Peach: What Will Sellers Mint under Free Minting Policies in NFT Marketplaces? *The 8th International Conference on Smart Finance (ICSF). University of Wollongong in Dubai. (August 4-6, 2023).
• NFT市场中的新铸造模式研究*. 中国信息经济学年会第八届理事会第五次会议. 广东广州. 2023年7月21-23日. 乌家培奖优秀博士生团队第二轮资助报告
• Lemon or Peach: What Sellers Should Mint under Free Minting Policies in NFT Marketplaces? * PACIS 2023 Workshop: Blockchain in IS: Now and Future, Nanchang, China. (July 8-12, 2023).
• True or False Prosperity? The Effect of Token Incentives in NFT Marketplaces, Doctoral Consortium, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Nanchang, China. (July 8-12, 2023).
• Effect of “Lazy Minting” on User Minting Strategies in NFT Marketplaces. 16^th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM). Changsha, China. (June 24-25, 2023). Best Paper Runner-up Award.
• Lemon or Peach: What Sellers Will Mint under Free Minting Policies in NFT Marketplaces? CityU Information Systems Summer Workshop 2023. (June 20-21, 2023).
• Lemon or Peach: What Sellers Will Mint under Free Minting Policies in NFT Marketplaces?*. MISQ 2023 Virtual Author Development Workshop. (Jun 19, 2023).
• True or False Prosperity? The Effect of Token Incentives in NFT Marketplaces. MISQ 2023 Virtual Author Development Workshop. (Jun 19, 2023).
• Lemon or Peach: What Sellers Will Mint under Free Minting Policies in NFT Marketplaces?*. The Business of Blockchain Technology Conference. Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami, Miami, USA. (May 19 – 20, 2023).
• DAO or No DAO? The Impact of Decentralized Governance on Virtual Land Trading in Metaverse*. Ph.D. Student Theory Development Workshop on Digital Innovation and Management. HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Apr 24, 2023).
• Lazy minting but not lazy mind: Strategic minting behavior under free minting policy in NFT marketplaces. Ph.D. Student Theory Development Workshop on Digital Innovation and Management. HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Apr 24, 2023).
• The Risk of Cryptocurrency Payment Adoption. 15th CityU PhD Student Workshop. (Nov 23-24, 2022).
• The Effect of Token Incentives in NFT Marketplaces. 15^th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM). Ningbo, China. (Aug 20-21, 2022).
• Embracing Cryptocurrency Payment Makes A Bigger Pie? Evidence from Online Travel Agencies. 15^th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM). Ningbo, China. (Aug 20-21, 2022). Best Paper Runner-up Award.
• Stock Recommendation, Information Disclosure, and Stock Abnormal Returns in Online Investment Communities - A Signaling Theory Perspective. The 7th International Conference on Smart Finance. HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong & Shenzhen, China. (August 19-20, 2022).
• Embracing Cryptocurrency Payment Makes a Bigger Pie? Evidence from Online Travel Agencies. MISQ 2022 Virtual Author Development Workshop. (Jun 18, 2022).
• True or False Prosperity? The Effect of Token Incentives in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. CityU Information Systems Summer Workshop 2022. (May 17-21, 2022).
• 在线投资社区中的价值发现与筛选利用——以SeekingAlpha为例. 中国运筹学会金融工程与金融风险管理分会第十届学术年会. 四川成都. 2021年7月23-25日.
*presented by coauthors

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Teaching

• PMBA6097 Managing Digital Innovation, HKU Business School, Teaching Assistant
• IS5413 Database Management Systems, College of Business, CityU, Teaching Assistant (TLQ: 4.6/5)

Awards and Honours

Academic Awards：
• ICIS 2024 Best Paper Nominee
• AIS SIGBIT 2024 Best Short Paper Award
• PACIS 2024 Junior Faculty Consortium Fellow
• Best Paper Nominee, 2024 POMS International Conference in China
• HICSS 2024 Doctoral Consortium Fellow
• Outstanding Presentation Award at 16th USTC&CITYU PhD Student Workshop 2023
• ICIS 2023 Doctoral Consortium Fellow
• PACIS 2023 Best Short Paper Nominee
• PACIS 2023 Doctoral Consortium Fellow
• 16^th CSWIM Best Paper Runner-up Award (2023)
• 《管理世界》2022年“十佳”优秀论文
• 15^th CSWIM Best Paper Runner-up Award (2022)
• 15^th CSWIM Best Reviewer Award (2022)
• 2019年中国高等教育学会教育信息化分会第十四次学术年会优秀论文
Scholarship：
• 黄梯云奖励基金创新研究奖 特等奖 (2023)
• Peter Ho Conference Scholarships, City University of Hong Kong (2023)
• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China (2022)
• Scholarship of Inovance, Harbin Institute of Technology & Inovance Tech (2018)
• First-class Postgraduate Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology (2017 and 2018).
• People's Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology (2013-2017, seven consecutive times)
Honours：
• Outstanding Graduate, Ministry of Education of Heilongjiang Province (2024)
• Excellent Student, Harbin Institute of Technology (2022)
• Merit Student of Heilongjiang Province, Ministry of Education of Heilongjiang Province (2019)
• Excellent Communist Party Member, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology (2019)
• Top Ten Students Nomination of Harbin Institute of Technology (2018)
• Pacesetter Excellent Communist Youth League Cadre, Harbin Institute of Technology (2018)
• Outstanding Graduate, Harbin Institute of Technology (2017 and 2019)
• Excellent Communist Youth League Member, Harbin Institute of Technology (2016 and 2019)
• Excellent Student Cadre, Harbin Institute of Technology (2014 and 2015)
• Excellent Communist Youth League Cadre, Harbin Institute of Technology (2014 and 2015)
• Merit Student, Harbin Institute of Technology (2013, 2017)

Ad-Hoc Reviewer

• Associate editor for ICIS 2025
• Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Frontiers in Physics
• CNAIS 2023, ICSF 2023, ICIS 2023 2024, PACIS 2023 2024, ECIS, 2020 2022 2023
• CSWIM 2022 Best Reviewer 2024
• MISQ Virtual Reviewer Development Workshop (2022)

Skills

Python, Stata, R, SQL, C, C++, Ethereum Solidity, Hyperledger Fabric

Other Experience

• FinTech Elite Training Camp of China Merchants Bank (2018, Champion team leader, senior FinTech engineer certification)
• Chairman of Graduate Student Union, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology (Sep 2017 to Sep 2018)