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Dr Qiang Ye is a chair professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He serves as executive dean of the Faculty of Business for Science and Technology and dean of the International Institute of Finance at USTC. Previously, he was dean of the School of Economics and Management at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and dean of the HIT Shenzhen Institute of FinTech. Professor Ye holds numerous leading academic and professional positions, including vice-president of the China Information Economics Society and chairman of its FinTech Committee. He is also vice-president of the Chinese Association of Management Science and Engineering and president of the Big Data and Business Analytics Research Association. Modern Management. He is a member of the Blockchain Expert Panel for the National Key R&D Programme of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a member of the Sixth National MBA Education Steering Committee, and of the Discipline Appraisal Group of the Seventh Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. His main research areas cover the digital economy and big data analytics, business applications of artificial intelligence and financial technology. In 2012, he received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He was appointed as a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education in 2016 and was awarded the Wu Jiapei Award for Information Economics in China in 2017. Professor Ye In addition, he chairs the Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics Committee of the Chinese Society of was listed among Elsevier’s Highly Cited Chinese Researchers 10 consecutive times from 2015 to 2025.
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