Ke-Wei Huang | Associate Professor & Executive Director

About Me

My research focuses on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Social Science. Specifically, I investigate Machine Learning for Improving Social Science Research Methods, Data Mining in Finance, IT Entrepreneurship, IT Labor Economics, and Pricing for Digital Goods.

Education

Ph.D.

New York University (Stern)
Information, Operations, & Management Sciences (2002-2007)
Dissertation Advisor: Roy Radner
Committee: Arun Sundararajan, Anindya Ghose

M.S.

New York University (Stern)
Information Systems (2001-2002)

M.B.A.

National Taiwan University
Finance (1995-1997)

B.S.

National Taiwan University
Electrical Engineering (1991-1995)

Experience

Academic Leadership & Current Roles

2023 - Present

Executive Director

Asian Institute of Digital Finance, NUS

2024 - Present

AI and Finance Area Lead

NUS AI Institute (NAII)

2024 - Present

Founding Program Director

Executive Master in AI and Digital Transformation

2016 - Present

Associate Professor

Department of Information Systems & Analytics, SoC, NUS

Prior Appointments

2020 - 2023

Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies

School of Computing, NUS

2020 - 2024

Founding Program Director

MSc / PhD in Digital Financial Technology

2012 - 2018

IS PhD Program Coordinator

National University of Singapore

2007 - 2016

Assistant Professor

Information Systems, NUS (Joint appt. FASS Economics 07-09)

Professional Work Experience

Co-founder
MARGO Technologies, Cambridge UK (2006)

Software Developer
Computer Associates Ltd., Taipei (2000-2001)

Financial Information Officer (2nd Lt.)
Defense Ministry, Taiwan (1997-1999)

Research & Grants

Academic Research Grants

2020 Singapore NRF Asian Institute of Digital Finance Research Grant: $1,600,000 USD. ("Extracting and Scoring the Reasoning and Prediction of Financial Experts� Comments from Textual Information")
2018 NUS Research Grant: $50,000 USD. ("Computer Vision for Automating Regression Diagnostic Tests")
2017 NUS Institute of Data Science Grant: $120,000 USD. ("The Singapore Smart Visual Checkpoint for Global Talents")
2015 NUS Research Grant: $97,000 USD. ("Analyzing IT Entrepreneurs Spawning by Web Data")
2013 NUS Research Grant: $115,000 USD. ("Human Capital Analytics based on Professional Social Networking Dataset")
2010 NUS Research Grant: $76,000 USD. ("Examining the Impacts of Enterprise Software Innovations by Quantifying Technology News")
2007 NUS Startup Grant: $45,000 USD. ("Optimal Pricing Metrics for Telecommunication and Network Industries")
2006 Net Institute Summer Grant: $4,500 USD. (with Arun Sundararajan)

Industry Research Grants

Manulife

$300,000 USD (PI)
2025

PGIM

$100,000 USD (Co-PI)
2025

FWD Insurance

$200,000 USD (Co-PI)
2024

Honors & Awards

2021: WITS Best Paper Nominee
2018: ICIS Best Paper Nominee
2016: Annual Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, NUS-Level
2013, 2014, 2016: Annual Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, School of Computing Level
2015: CSWIM Best Paper Nominee
2012: ICEC Best Student Paper Nominee
2011: ICIS Best Paper Nominee
2007: ACM SIGMIS (ICIS) Doctoral Dissertation Award (Runner-up)
2006: Stern Fellowship of Excellence (1 out of 3 PhD students at Stern, NYU)
2006: First place of Cambridge University (UK) Entrepreneurs Business Creation Competition

Teaching & Advising

Teaching Experience

Strategic Applications of Generative AI for Executives - Executive Master in AI (26)
Capstone Project for FinTech - Master, Digital Financial Technology (22-24)
Machine Learning for Finance - Master, Digital Financial Technology (22-25)
Risk Analytics for Financial Services - Undergraduate, Business Analytics (20-21)
Hands-on with Business Analytics - Master, Business Analytics (21-22)
Online FinTech and Digital Business - Undergraduate, NUS SCALE (21-22)
Decision Making Technologies - Master, Business Analytics (17-19)
Machine Learning for Economic Forecasting - Master, Economics (18-19)
Search Engine Optimization and Analytics - Undergraduate, Business Analytics (16-18)
Business and Finance IT Management - Master of Technology in Leadership (17-18)
Capstone Projects for Business Analytics - Undergraduate, Information Systems (15)
Mobile and Ubiquitous Commerce - Undergraduate, Information Systems (11-16)
Telecoms and International Networks - Master, Information Systems (07-14)
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management - Master, Economics (08-09)

PhD Students Graduated

Chunmian GE (2014) - Assistant Professor, South China University of Technology
Xiao ZOU (2015) - Data Scientist, SingTel
Zhuolun LI (2016) - Research Fellow, Singapore Management University
Qing CHEN (2016) - Assistant of Chairman, China Insurance Investment Fund
Sangwook HA (2019) - Assistant Professor, BNU-HKBU United International College
Mengke QIAO (2021) - Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
Qi WANG (2022) - Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Xuanqi LIU (2024) - Assistant Professor, Hunan University

Major Data Competition Results

2020 Adobe Analytics Challenge
Ranked #6 out of 1600 teams (Mentor for Team Pegasus-NUS)

2018 KDD Cup
Ranked #15 out of 669 Teams

Academic Service & Talks

Editorial Roles

Journal Senior Editor: AIS Transactions on Replication Research (2024-2025)
Journal Associate Editor: Decision Sciences (2026-Now), Communications of the Association for Information Systems (2025-Now)
Ad-Hoc Associate Editor: MIS Quarterly Special Issue (2019, 2022)

Conference Chair Roles

Program Chair: Int. Conf. on Financial Technology 2024
Workshop Chair: ACM AI and Finance 2025
Track Chair: ICIS 2021, 2025; PACIS 2015, 2020, 2021, 2024; WEB 2011
Doctoral Consortium Chair: PACIS 2023

University & Panel Services

NUS Research Council Expert Panel (EP2)
External Reviewer: RGC Hong Kong (2016-2022)
ICIS Junior Faculty/Doctoral Consortium Mentor
IS Department Search Committee & EXCO

Selected Invited Talks

Academic Talks

Warwick University (2025), ETH Zurich (2024), Int. Conf. on Fintech (2024), NYU (2020), U. of Minnesota (2020), U. of Washington (2020), HKUST (2019), NTU (2018), CUHK (2017), HKU (2015), Georgia Tech (2007), U. Penn (2006)...

Industry Talks

Paypal (2025), Japan Fintech Festival (2025), Marsh Insurance (2024), InnoX Hong Kong (2024), AIDF SFF (2023), UOB (2023), Monetary Authority of Singapore (2016)...

Education-Oriented

Taiwan NCU (2025), Taiwan SFI (2025), FJU EMBA (2025), SKKU EMBA (2023-2025), East China Normal University (2024), Tsinghua Xueshuo (2024), Mizuho Bank (2024), Chiang Mai University (2024)...