Dr. Xiao-Liang Shen (沈校亮) is a Full Professor at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, P.R. China. Before joining SIM, he worked at Economics and Management School of Wuhan University for ten years. Dr. Shen received a joint doctoral degree from City University of Hong Kong (CityU), with a major in Information Systems, and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), with a major in Management Science & Engineering. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Information Systems at City University of Hong Kong during 2019-2020. His current research interests include Information Behavior, Digital Governance, and Electronic Commerce.

Dr. Shen has published over 60 research articles in International academic journals and conference proceedings, including Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), Information & Management (I&M), Decision Support Systems (DSS), and International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), etc.

Dr. Shen serves as Senior Editor of Internet Research (SCI/SSCI, 2020 IF: 6.77, ABS 3, ABDC A) and Associate Editor of Electronic Commerce Research (SSCI, ABDC A) and Data and Information Management. He has also served as a Guest Editor for Information Processing & Management, Electronic Markets, and Electronic Commerce Research. He is the PI or co-PI of a number of prestigious competitive grants, with a total funding of over RMB 10 million. He won academic awards from the Ministry of Education of China and Hubei Province. Dr. Shen is the external referee for QS World University Rankings, Times Higher Education China Subject Ratings, and many respected international journals and scientific research grants (e.g., HKRGC, NSFC).